EFF: Google, Apple's Contact-Tracing System Open to Cyberattacks

Privacy advocates are urging developers to proceed with caution as they use technology released by Apple and Google to build COVID-19 contact-tracing apps — and are warning against the potential for cybercriminal use. On the latter point, the system is meant to help people know if they have come...

Google and Apple Plan to Turn Phones into COVID-19 Contact-Tracking Devices

Tech giants Apple and Google have joined forces to develop an interoperable contact-tracing tool that will help individuals determine if they have come in contact with someone infected with COVID-19. As part of this new initiative, the companies are expected to release an API that public agencies...

Google and Apple Plan to Turn Phones into COVID-19 Contact-Tracking Devices

Tech giants Apple and Google have joined forces to develop an interoperable contact-tracing tool that will help individuals determine if they have come in contact with someone infected with COVID-19. As part of this new initiative, the companies are expected to release an API that public agencies...

Using Ultrasonic Beacons to Track Users

I've previously written about ad networks using ultrasonic communications to jump from one device to another. The idea is for devices like televisions to play ultrasonic codes in advertisements and for nearby smartphones to detect them. This way the two devices can be linked. Creepy, yes. And als...

Wikileaks Unveils CIA's Man-in-the-Middle Attack Tool

Wikileaks has published a new batch of the Vault 7 leak, detailing a man-in-the-middle MitM attack tool allegedly created by the United States Central Intelligence Agency CIA to target local networks. Since March, WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents and other secret tools that the...

Ultrasonic Beacons Are Tracking Your Every Movement

More than 200 Android mobile applications listen surreptitiously for ultrasonic beacons embedded in audio that are used to track users and serve them with targeted advertising. Academics from Technische Universitat Braunschweig in Germany recently published a paper in which they describe their...

Microsoft Exchange Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An email filter bypass exists in the way that Microsoft Exchange parses HTML messages that could allow information disclosure. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could identify, fingerprint, and track a user online if the user views email messages using Outlook Web Access OW...

Error: "Cannot Add Account" While Configuring StoreFront Beacons

Using discovery document fails with error"cannot add account"...

Report warns of 'web bugs' and privacy violations

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information has released a report showing that the most popular Web sites in the United States all share data with their corporate affiliates and allow third parties to collect information directly by using tracking beacons known a...

intel-race.txt

Title: Intel 2200BG 802.11 Beacon frame Kernel Memory Corruption Description: The intel wireless mini-pci driver provided with Intel 2200BG cards is vulnerable to a remote race condition memory corruption flaw. Malformed beacons frame can be used to corrupt internal kernel structures,leading to...

[NT] Intel 2200BG 802.11 Beacon frame Kernel Memory Corruption

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Intel 2200BG 802.11 Beacon frame Kernel Memory Corruption Exploit

Exploit for multiple platform in category dos / poc ================================================================= Intel 2200BG 802.11 Beacon frame Kernel Memory Corruption Exploit ================================================================= / Summary: The intel wireless mini-pci driver...