CVE-2012-6334

The CVE-2012-6334 entry concerns Samsung Galaxy devices' SamsungDive Track My Mobile feature on Android. The vulnerability arises because Location APIs are not properly implemented in Track My Mobile, enabling physically proximate attackers to inject arbitrary location data via a simple GPS locat...

GPS based tracking service provided by Samsung vulnerable to thieves

Samsung which is currently believed to the highest Smartphones Seller in the World is now providing a Remote tracking solution in all its smartphones to Track the lost phone with the name "Samsung Dive". The Service is based on the Architecture which primarily acquires precise location of the sma...

GPS based tracking service provided by Samsung vulnerable to thieves

Samsung which is currently believed to the highest Smartphones Seller in the World is now providing a Remote tracking solution in all its smartphones to Track the lost phone with the name "Samsung Dive". The Service is based on the Architecture which primarily acquires precise location of the sma...

Sandia Lab's MegaDroid Project Builds Out Massive Android Test Platform

It might sound like a security researcher’s worst nightmare to string together 300,000 virtual instances of the Android OS, but for scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, it’s just another day. The Department of Energy-sponsored national security-focused laboratory released the MegaDroid...

New Trojan Spreading On App Store and Google Play

A new Trojan that uploads users’ phonebooks to a remote server is making the rounds, circulating on both Apple’s App Store and the Google Play marketplaces, according to research by Kaspersky Lab posted on the Securelist web site earlier today. Kaspersky virus researchers, responding to a request...

Drones can be hijacked by terrorist, Researchers says Vulnerability Exist

Drones can be hijacked by terrorist, Researchers says Vulnerability Exist Fox News is reporting that researchers say that terrorists or drug gangs, with the right kind of equipment could turn the drones into "suicide" weapons. A University of Texas researcher illustrated that fact in a series of...

MobileSpy Android|iPhone|W7P|sOS - Web Vulnerabilities

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications Title: ====== MobileSpy Android|iPhone|W7P|sOS - Web Vulnerabilities Common Vulnerability Scoring System: ==================================== 7.3 Introduction: ============= Mobile Spy defines the latest in high-tech cell phone...

Senator Seeks More Info On DOJ Location Tracking Practices

Senator Al Franken D-MN is demanding answers to questions about the U.S. Department of Justice DOJ practice of gathering data from wireless providers in order to monitor individuals’ movements using mobile phone location data. Franken released a copy of a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on...

Forensic FOCA - Power of Metadata in digital forensics

Forensic FOCA - Power of Metadata in digital forensics Most of the e ort in today's digital forensics community lies in the retrieval and analysis of existing information from computing systems. Metadata is data about data. Metadata plays a number of important roles in computer forensics. It can...

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs The FBI swooped on Higinio O Ochoa III after he posted the snap, which included a gloating message to his online victims.He took the picture on his iPhone and posted it on Twitter without realising it contained GPS data pointing directly to...

TigerBot - SMS Controlled Android Malware Stealing Information

TigerBot - SMS Controlled Android Malware Stealing Information A new form of Android malware controlled via SMS messages has been discovered and the malware can record phone calls, upload the device's GPS location, and reboot the phone, among other things. Researchers at NQ Mobile, working...

New Android Malware Controlled by SMS, Records Calls, GPS Location

A new form of Android malware controlled via SMS messages has been discovered and the malware can record phone calls, upload the device’s GPS location, and reboot the phone, among other things. Researchers at NQ Mobile Security working with Dr. Xuxian Jiang’s team at nearby North Carolina State...

The Pirate Bay plans Low Orbit Server Drones to beat #Censorship

The Pirate Bay plans Low Orbit Server Drones to beat Censorship One of the world's largest BitTorrent sites "The Pirate Bay" is going to put servers on GPS-controlled aircraft drones in order to evade authorities who are looking to shut the site down. In a Sunday blog post, The Pirate Bay announc...

Crime with $50 GPS jammer increasing rapidly in UK

Crime with $50 GPS jammer increasing rapidly in UK Too many are using illegal GPS jamming devices on UK roads, according to a study, and are putting critical emergency systems at risk of failure and it's at extreme risk from criminals, terrorist organizations and rogue states and even someone wit...

CVE-2012-1288

The CVE refers to UTC Fire & Security GE-MC100-NTP/GPS-ZB Master Clock devices that use hardcoded administrative credentials. The underlying issue is a hardcoded admin user/password that can be used to access the device via its web interface, enabling remote attackers to obtain access and potenti...

US Supreme Court Ends Warrantless GPS Tracking

In a decision that was closeley watched by civil liberties group and the technology industry, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that GPS tracking devices constitute a “search” and that authorities must obtain a warrant before placing one on a suspect’s vehicle. In a rare 9-0 vote, the Court...

Why US Aircrafts Drop Spy Devices in Syrian ?

Why US Aircrafts Drop Spy Devices in Syrian ? Last week Iranian engineer claim to hijack U.S. drone by hacking GPS system using GPS spoofing. On December 14, residents of a small town in northern Syria reported seeing unidentified aircraft circling overhead, and dropping several small items...

Iranian engineer hijack U.S. drone by GPS hack [Video Explanation]

An Iranian engineer working on the captured US drone has said that Iran exploited a weakness in the craft's navigation system to hijack it. The aircraft was downed through a relatively unsophisticated cyber-attack that tricked its global positioning systems GPS. The technique, known as "GPS...

Iranian engineer hijack U.S. drone by GPS hack [Video Explanation]

An Iranian engineer working on the captured US drone has said that Iran exploited a weakness in the craft's navigation system to hijack it. The aircraft was downed through a relatively unsophisticated cyber-attack that tricked its global positioning systems GPS. The technique, known as "GPS...

Report: Iran Claims To Have Hacked, Then Hijacked Stealth Drone

A report on the Web site of the Christian Science Monitor claims that Iran exploited a long-known vulnerability in the GPS navigation system of the U.S.’s RQ-170 Sentinel drone to force it into landing safely within Iran. The report, Thursday, cites an Iranian engineer that is part of a team that...