Flawed Android Factory Reset Failed to Clear Private Data from Smartphones

If you’re planning to sell your old Android smartphone then you need to think again because there is a weakness in the Android Factory Reset option that could be exploited to recover your login credentials, text messages, emails and pictures even if you have wiped its memory clean. Computer...

Spy Agencies Hijack Google Play Store to Install Spyware on Smartphones

I have an Android phone with a five different gmail accounts configured in it. But what if any one of them get compromised via phishing, malware or any other way? The Hacker would be able to access my Google account and obviously Google Play Store account too, which allows anyone to install any...

HP Access Control Pull Print Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

HP Access Control allows users to authenticate with an NFC-enabled smartphone or tablet. HP Access Control has a security vulnerability that could be exploited by a local attacker to perform unauthorized access...

Android M — Latest Google Android OS to be Unveiled This Month

While majority of smartphone users are waiting for Android 5.0 Lollipop update for their devices, Google is soon going to launch the next version of Android at its official Google I/O 2015 developer event May 28 in San Francisco. Android M — The name of the latest version of Android mobile...

BodyPrint Technology Turns Smartphones into Biometric Scanners

Yahoo! don’t want you to every time type a PIN or swipe your phone or scan your thumbprint in order to unlock your smartphone. Instead, it only wants you to place your smartphone device on your ear in order to do that. A new concept from Yahoo’s Research Labs is out that doesn’t focus on old...

Lost Your Phone? Google Search 'Find My Phone' To Locate It

How many of you have an issue to forget your mobile phones? I guess, most of us. Sometimes in our homes, sometimes in our offices, sometimes in our cars and sometimes we even don’t remember the exact place where we left our phones. Now, Finding your phone is as simple as searching something on...

How to Run Two WhatsApp Accounts in One Phone | Dual WhatsApp

Are you looking for methods on how to run two WhatsApp accounts in one phone, or how to use 2 WhatsApp in 1 phone? In this tutorial, we have shared various techniques that allow mobile users to run multiple or dual WhatsApp accounts in one single phone. WhatsApp is one of the most popular and...

OnePlus OxygenOS Now Available for Download

OnePlus One users might be waiting for the new Lollipop based ROM for their smartphones. The wait is over as the popular Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has finally released its own custom ROM -- OnePlus OxygenOS, which is based on Android 5.0 Lollipop. Last month, the OnePlus announced the...

Your Location has been Shared 5,398 Times in Last 14 Days

Do you realize how often your smartphone is sharing your location data with various companies? It is more than 5000 times in just two weeks. That is little Shocking but True! A recent study by the security researchers from Carnegie Mellon reveals that a number of smartphone applications collect...

Smart ATM offers Cardless Cash Withdrawal to Avoid Card Skimmers

Banks have tried every effort, from providing Magnetic Stripes based Credit and Debit Cards to Chip-and-Pin Cards, in order to secure its users from credit card cloning and card Skimmers. It has been known from years that Magnetic stripe are incredibly hackable, but Chip-n-Pin cards have also bee...

Researchers Get Trolled by Chinese, Pre-Malwartized Xiaomi Mi4 was Duplicate

Recently a mobile-security firm Bluebox claimed that the brand new Xiaomi Mi4 LTE comes pre-installed with spyware/adware and a "forked" vulnerable version of Android operating system on top of it, however, the company denies the claim. Xiaomi, which is also known as Apple of China, provides an...

Ogaki Kyoritsu bank Smartphone Passbook for Android Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Ogaki Kyoritsu bank Smartphone Passbook is a suite of mobile banking passbook applications from Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank Corporation in Japan. Ogaki Kyoritsu bank Smartphone Passbook fails to securely create log files containing sensitive data, allowing an attacker to exploit vulnerabilities to obtain...

Ogaki Kyoritsu bank Smartphone Passbook Security Bypass Vulnerability

Ogaki Kyoritsu bank Smartphone Passbook is a suite of mobile banking passbook applications from Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank Corporation in Japan. A security bypass vulnerability exists in Ogaki Kyoritsu bank Smartphone Passbook, which can be exploited by remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle...

Crashing Google Email App for Android Just By Sending a Malicious Email

A vulnerability has been discovered in the wildly popular Google’s Stock Android Email App, that could be exploited by malicious attackers to remotely crash your smartphone application just by sending a specially crafted email. A Spain security researcher, Hector Marco, successfully exploited the...

Visa Wants To Track Your Smartphone to Prevent Credit Card Fraud

If you are a traveler and loves to travel then you must be annoyed of those calls you sometimes get from your bank when buying things far from home, and the most annoyed part is when the company won't approve the transaction as it fears your card was stolen. VISA MOBILE LOCATION CONFIRMATION APP...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank Smartphone Passbook application 1.0.0 for Android creates a log file containing input data from the user, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a file...

CVE-2015-0875

The Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank Smartphone Passbook for Android (Ver. 1.0.0) creates log files that contain user input data, enabling reading of sensitive information by anyone with access to the log. Multiple sources (NVD/CNVD/JVN) document an information-disclosure vulnerability arising from logging us...

Smartphone Passbook fails to verify SSL server certificates

Overview Smartphone Passbook provided by Ogaki Kyoritsu bank Ltd. fails to verify SSL server certificates. Hiroshi Kumagai reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership. Impact A man-in-the-middle attack may allow...

JVN#14522790: Smartphone Passbook fails to verify SSL server certificates

Smartphone Passbook provided by Ogaki Kyoritsu bank Ltd. fails to verify SSL server certificates. Impact A man-in-the-middle attack may allow an attacker to eavesdrop on an encrypted communication. Solution Update the Software Update to the latest version according to the information provided by...

Security Advisory-Information Leakage Vulnerability in Huawei P7 Smartphone

MeWidget is a plug-in of Huawei Emotion UI. The MeWidget module on Huawei smartphone P7 has a vulnerability that could lead to the disclosure of contact information. Attackers can obtain the name and URI information of mobile phone users through the malware installed on the smartphones...