18-Year-Old Student Arrested for Hacking School Computers to Change Grades

An 18-year old Miami University student is facing charges for allegedly breaching the school's computer system to change grades for himself and four other students. Jose Bautista appeared before a judge Friday after he was arrested Thursday by the Miami School Board Police after the principal of...

New Facebook 'Nearby Friends' Can Track Your GPS Location Continuously

Facebook – one of the popular social networking website that connects you worldwide with your friends, families, and many more to your network. Now, Facebook is introducing a new feature named “Nearby Friends” for its Android and iPhone mobile users that will allow them to find their friends when...

Popular Navigation App hijacked with Fake Bots to Cause Traffic Jam

Beware! Hackers can cause Traffic jams with just a navigation Smartphone application. Two Israeli students were assigned by college to hack Google-owned Waze GPS app, an Israeli-made Smartphone app that provides directions and alerts drivers to traffic and accidents. Shir Yadid and Meital...

Windows Spy tool equipped with Android malware to hack Smartphones

I am quite sure that you must be syncing your Smartphone with your Computers for transferring files and taking backup of your device. If you are using windows operating system and Android devices, then it’s a bad news for you, because FireEye Security Researchers have identified a new piece of...

Backdoor found in Samsung Galaxy Devices, allows Hackers to remotely access/modify Data

Google’s Android operating system may be open source, but the version of Android that runs on most phones, tablets, and other devices includes proprietary, closed-source components. Phone makers, including Samsung ships its Smartphones with a modified version of Android, with some pre-installed...

Tinder Online Dating app vulnerability revealed Exact Location of Users

Using Popular Online Dating app - Tinder on iPhone?? Then you are at significant risk that exposed members' private information without their knowledge. Online Dating app Tinder, available for the iPhone from the app store, has become incredibly popular in the past few months. Tinder app allows y...

Ultrasonic Password Security for Google Accounts

Does a Strong Password Guarantee you the Security of your Online Account? If yes, then you should once check out our 'Data breaches' section on the website. A Startup Company, SlickLogin has developed a technology that enables you to login into online accounts using Ultrasonic sound, instead of...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2038

The NMEA0183 driver in gpsd before 3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon termination and possibly execute arbitrary code via a GPS packet with a malformed $GPGGA interpreted sentence that lacks certain fields and a terminator. NOTE: a separate issue in the AIS driver was...

CVE-2013-2038

The NMEA0183 driver in gpsd before 3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon termination and possibly execute arbitrary code via a GPS packet with a malformed $GPGGA interpreted sentence that lacks certain fields and a terminator. NOTE: a separate issue in the AIS driver was...

Android app that notifies you whenever GPS enabled apps access your location

A team of Researchers at Rutgers University has developed an Android application which will notify you every time, whenever an app installed on your Smartphone accesses the GPS functionality. Smartphone is a multipurpose device, having features of both a mobile phone and a computer, allowing us t...

Foursquare vulnerability that exposes 45 million users' email addresses

A location based Social Networking platform with 45 million users,'Foursquare' was vulnerable to the primary email address disclosed. Foursquare is a Smartphone application that gives you details of nearby cafes, bars, shops, parks using GPS location and also tells about your friends nearby...

Smartphones, A Perfect Cyber Espionage and Surveillance Weapon

The use of mobile devices in government environments concerns the secret service of any states, cyber espionage more often exploits the mobile platforms. Mobile devices are reason of great concern for governments, they have a great computational capability, huge memories to store our personal dat...

Smartphones, A Perfect Cyber Espionage and Surveillance Weapon

The use of mobile devices in government environments concerns the secret service of any states, cyber espionage more often exploits the mobile platforms. Mobile devices are reason of great concern for governments, they have a great computational capability, huge memories to store our personal dat...

Researchers Hack GPS, Yacht Veers Off Course

A 213-foot luxury yacht veered off course while cruising in the Mediterranean Sea this summer after a radio navigation research team led by global positioning systems expert Todd Humphreys of the University of Texas Austin built a custom-made device capable of overriding the ship’s GPS receivers...

Exploiting GPS vulnerability to Hijack Ships, Airplanes with $3000 Equipments

The GPS expert Todd Humphreys, professors at the University of Texas, demonstrated that just using a cheap apparatus composed by a small antenna, an electronic GPS "spoofer" built in $3,000 and with a laptop, it is possible to exploit GPS vulnerability to obtain control of sophisticated navigatio...

Exploiting GPS vulnerability to Hijack Ships, Airplanes with $3000 Equipments

The GPS expert Todd Humphreys, professors at the University of Texas, demonstrated that just using a cheap apparatus composed by a small antenna, an electronic GPS “spoofer” built in $3,000 and with a laptop, it is possible to exploit GPS vulnerability to obtain control of sophisticated navigatio...

AndroRat - Remote Administration Tool for Android

Androrat is a client/server application developed in Java Android for the client side and in Java/Swing for the Server. The name Androrat is a mix of Android and RAT Remote Access Tool. It has been developed in a team of 4 for a university project. It has been realised in one month. The goal of t...

Fedora Update for gypsy FEDORA-2013-8705

Check for the Version of gypsy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gypsy FEDORA-2013-8705 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms ...

Fedora Update for gpsd FEDORA-2013-7309

Check for the Version of gpsd OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gpsd FEDORA-2013-7309 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of...

Fedora Update for gypsy FEDORA-2013-8687

Check for the Version of gypsy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gypsy FEDORA-2013-8687 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms ...