China's Baidu Android Apps Caught Collecting Sensitive User Data

Two popular Android apps from Chinese tech giant Baidu were temporarily unavailable on the Google Play Store in October after they were caught collecting sensitive user details. The two apps in question—Baidu Maps and Baidu Search Box —were found to collect device identifiers, such as the...

Apple iOS Authorization Vulnerability

Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices developed by Apple Inc. in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in Apple iOS versions prior to 12.1, which stems from the possibility that a local user may be able to read persistent device identifiers. No details of the...

Popular iOS SDK Accused of Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud

A popular iOS software development kit SDK used by over 1,200 apps—with a total of more than a billion mobile users—is said to contain malicious code with the goal of perpetrating mobile ad-click fraud and capturing sensitive information. According to a report published by cybersecurity firm Snyk...

Researchers Uncover Novel Way to De-anonymize Device IDs to Users' Biometrics

Researchers have uncovered a potential means to profile and track online users using a novel approach that combines device identifiers with their biometric information. The details come from a newly published research titled "Nowhere to Hide: Cross-modal Identity Leakage between Biometrics and...

Researchers Uncover Novel Way to De-anonymize Device IDs to Users' Biometrics

Researchers have uncovered a potential means to profile and track online users using a novel approach that combines device identifiers with their biometric information. The details come from a newly published research titled "Nowhere to Hide: Cross-modal Identity Leakage between Biometrics and...

Microsoft Edge Shares Privacy-Busting Telemetry, Research Alleges

Microsoft Edge is one of the least private web browsers — even more so than other popular browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox — according to academic researchers. According to the analysis, from Douglas Leith with the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College in...

Over 1,300 Android Apps Caught Collecting Data Even If You Deny Permissions

Smartphones are a goldmine of sensitive data, and modern apps work as diggers that continuously collect every possible information from your devices. The security model of modern mobile operating systems, like Android and iOS, is primarily based on permissions that explicitly define which sensiti...

The vulnerability of the jsm_probe_one handler implementation in Linux kernels allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability in the implementation of the jsmprobeone function in the drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm.ko kernel of the Linux operating system is caused by a memory leak. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a system failure by connecting a Digi International Neo and Classi...

Android Q — Google Adds New Mobile Security and Privacy Features

Google has recently released the first beta version of Android Q, the next upcoming version of Google's popular mobile operating system, with a lot of new privacy improvements and other security enhancements. Android Q, where Q has not yet been named, offers more control over installed apps, thei...

ZOHO ManageEngine Desktop Central Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-20575)

ZOHO ManageEngine Desktop Central DC is a desktop management solution from ZOHO. The solution includes software distribution, patch management, system configuration, remote control and other functional modules to support the entire lifecycle of desktop and server management. A security...

CVE-2018-9067

The Lenovo Help Android app versions earlier than 6.1.2.0327 had insufficient access control for some functions which, if exploited, could have led to exposure of approximately 400 email addresses and 8,500 IMEI...

Multiple Apple Product Status Management Vulnerabilities (CNVD-2018-12249)

Apple iOS and others are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system developed for mobile devices; Safari is a web browser that is the default browser that comes with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. iCloud for Windows is a cloud service based on the Windows platform. Security ...

Android Telephony Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA.Telephony is one of the components that provides telephony functionality. The internal/telephony/PhoneSubInfoController.java file in Telephony in versions 5.x prior to Android 5.1.1 LMY49H...