Location data leaks from family tracking app database

An app called Family Locator, which allows family members to keep track of one another recently experienced an exposed database issue of the worst kind. Specifically: the MongoDB database was left exposed with no password, like so many other recent infosec tales of woe. The end result is the...

vBulletin 4.2.5 Member Map 1.1.2 Open Redirection

Exploit Title : vBulletin 4.2.5 Member Map 1.1.2 Open Redirection Author Discovered By : KingSkrupellos Team : Cyberizm Digital Security Army Date : 04/03/2019 Vendor Homepage : vbulletin.com dragonbyte-tech.com Software Information Link : dragonbyte-tech.com/store/member-map.229/ Software Affect...

GHSA-M8PW-H8QJ-RGJ9 ipip-coffee downloads Resources over HTTP

Affected versions of ipip-coffee insecurely download resources over HTTP. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, they can modify or read such resources at will. This could impact the integrity and availability of the data being used to make geolocation decisions by an...

ipip-coffee downloads Resources over HTTP

Affected versions of ipip-coffee insecurely download resources over HTTP. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, they can modify or read such resources at will. This could impact the integrity and availability of the data being used to make geolocation decisions by an...

Pre-Installed Android App Impacts Millions with Slew of Malicious Activity

A pre-installed Android application on Alcatel smartphones has been found surreptitiously siphoning off geolocation data, email addresses and phone identification numbers and sending the data to a server in China. Analysts with Upstream’s Secure-D platform said that the app, Weather Forecast—Worl...

Weather Channel App in a Deluge of Legal Trouble for Data Misuse

A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that the popular Weather Channel App misled its users about how it would use the personal – and extremely precise – location data that it collects. IBM subsidiary The Weather Channel TWC markets its free app as the world’s most downloaded weather app, touting 45...

Android OS API-Breaking Flaw Offers Useful WiFi Data to Bad Actors

An “API-breaking” vulnerability has been uncovered that potentially exposes Android device systems data to rogue apps — information that could be very useful to bad actors. Researchers from Nightwatch Cybersecurity System said that certain all-points-bulletins sent out by the Android OS expose...

Android OS WiFi Broadcast Sensitive Data Exposure

Blog post here: https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2018/08/29/sensitive-data-exposure-via-wifi-broadcasts-in-android-os-cve-2018-9489/ TITLE Sensitive Data Exposure via WiFi Broadcasts in Android OS CVE-2018-9489 SUMMARY System broadcasts by Android OS expose information about the users...

Researchers Developed Artificial Intelligence-Powered Stealthy Malware

Artificial Intelligence AI has been seen as a potential solution for automatically detecting and combating malware, and stop cyber attacks before they affect any organization. However, the same technology can also be weaponized by threat actors to power a new generation of malware that can evade...

Researchers Developed Artificial Intelligence-Powered Stealthy Malware

Artificial Intelligence AI has been seen as a potential solution for automatically detecting and combating malware, and stop cyber attacks before they affect any organization. However, the same technology can also be weaponized by threat actors to power a new generation of malware that can evade...

Black Owl - Tool To Gather Information, Based On Operative-Framework

This is a simple tool to gather information, based on Operative-Framework. Requirements requests pythonwhois beautifulsoup4 Install requirements $ pip install -r requirements.txt How to use $ git clone https://github.com/qqwaszx/blackowl.git $ python main.py : blackowl help Modules /core/modules/...

Polar Fitness App Exposes Location of ‘Spies’ and Military Personnel

Fitness device maker Polar Flow suspended an Explore tracking feature on its mobile app after researchers discovered profile and geolocation data of high-ranking military personnel and “spies” that were being exposed to the public on its network. In a report released by Dutch publication De...

CVE-2018-12716

The API service on Google Home and Chromecast devices before mid-July 2018 does not prevent DNS rebinding attacks from reading the scanresults JSON data, which allows remote attackers to determine the physical location of most web browsers by leveraging the presence of one of these devices on its...

CVE-2018-12716

The API service on Google Home and Chromecast devices before mid-July 2018 does not prevent DNS rebinding attacks from reading the scanresults JSON data, which allows remote attackers to determine the physical location of most web browsers by leveraging the presence of one of these devices on its...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

The API service on Google Home and Chromecast devices before mid-July 2018 does not prevent DNS rebinding attacks from reading the scanresults JSON data, which allows remote attackers to determine the physical location of most web browsers by leveraging the presence of one of these devices on its...

CVE-2018-12716

The CVE-2018-12716 entry describes an API service vulnerability in Google Home and Chromecast devices prior to mid-July 2018. The issue allows DNS rebinding to read scan_results JSON data and extract BSSID fields, enabling remote readers on the local network to determine the user’s physical locat...

CVE-2018-12716

The API service on Google Home and Chromecast devices before mid-July 2018 does not prevent DNS rebinding attacks from reading the scanresults JSON data, which allows remote attackers to determine the physical location of most web browsers by leveraging the presence of one of these devices on its...

Google Home, Chromecast Leak Location Information

Google Home and Chromecast devices allow attackers to uncover the precise physical locations of the connected gadgets thanks to two common internet of things issues present in both. A fix from Google is incoming in July. At issue is, like many other IoT devices, they don’t require authentication...

Google to Fix Location Data Leak in Google Home, Chromecast

Google in the coming weeks is expected to fix a location privacy leak in two of its most popular consumer products. New research shows that Web sites can run a simple script in the background that collects precise location data on people who have a Google Home or Chromecast device installed...

Totally Pwning the Tapplock (the API way)

An awesome researcher contacted us on the back of our recent Tapplock pwnage. We had been looking at the local BLE unlock mechanism, however he focussed instead on the mobile app API. Vangelis Stykas @evstykas has found a way to unlock any lock, plus scrape users PII and home addresses. Read his...