New Android Flaw Affecting Over 1 Billion Phones Let Attackers Hijack Apps

Remember Strandhogg? A security vulnerability affecting Android that malicious apps can exploit to masquerade as any other app installed on a targeted device to display fake interfaces to the users, tricking them into giving away sensitive information. Late last year, at the time of its public...

Utah Says No to Apple/Google COVID-19 Tracing; Debuts Startup App

The state of Utah has settled on a contact-tracing mobile app that collects detailed user location information to track the spread of COVID-19 among citizens – eschewing the API model proposed by Apple and Google in April. The app is called “Healthy Together” and it was created by a startup calle...

CVE-2020-2004

Under certain circumstances a user's password may be logged in cleartext in the PanGPS.log diagnostic file when logs are collected for troubleshooting on GlobalProtect app also known as GlobalProtect Agent for MacOS and Windows. For this issue to occur all of these conditions must be true: 1 'Sav...

India's Covid-19 Contact Tracing App Could Leak Patient Locations

The system's use of GPS data could let hackers pinpoint who reports a positive diagnosis...

CVE-2019-20784

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1 MTK chipsets software. Interaction of GPS with 911 emergency calls is mishandled. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-180012 January 2019...

CVE-2019-20784

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1 MTK chipsets software. Interaction of GPS with 911 emergency calls is mishandled. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-180012 January 2019...

Code injection

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1 MTK chipsets software. Interaction of GPS with 911 emergency calls is mishandled. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-180012 January 2019...

CVE-2019-20784

CVE-2019-20784 affects LG mobile devices running Android 7.0–8.1 (MTK chipset) where the interaction between GPS and 911 emergency calls is mishandled. The issue is described in multiple sources (NVD, Red Hat, CVE listing) as a GPS-related handling flaw during emergency calls, with LG’s internal ...

CVE-2019-20784

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1 MTK chipsets software. Interaction of GPS with 911 emergency calls is mishandled. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-180012 January 2019...

CVE-2020-11445

TP-Link cloud cameras through 2020-02-09 allow remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain sensitive information via vectors involving a Wi-Fi session with GPS enabled, aka CNVD-2020-04855...

Authentication flaw

TP-Link cloud cameras through 2020-02-09 allow remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain sensitive information via vectors involving a Wi-Fi session with GPS enabled, aka CNVD-2020-04855...

CVE-2020-11445

TP-Link cloud cameras through 2020-02-09 allow remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain sensitive information via vectors involving a Wi-Fi session with GPS enabled, aka CNVD-2020-04855...

Spying on old folks

We’ve tested plenty of kids GPS tracker watches over the years. Nearly all we looked at had critical security issues. For a BBC show a while back we were asked to investigate the security of similar trackers for the elderly. They’re a nice idea; allowing people to live independently for longer an...

Apple Takes Heat Over 'Vulnerable' iOS Cut-and-Paste Data

Any cut-and-paste data temporarily stored to an iPhone or iPad’s memory can be accessed by all apps installed on the specific device – even malicious ones. That data can then reveal private information such as a user’s GPS coordinates, passwords, banking data or a spreadsheet copied into an email...

Hamas Ensnares Israeli Soldiers with Pretty 'Ladies'

Hamas has been caught taking a classic “catfish” approach, to tempt Israeli soldiers into installing spyware on their phones. Members posed as teen girls who are looking for quality chat time. This is the third time that the Palestinian group has used the tactic – but this time it upped its...

CVE-2020-0020

In getAttributeRange of ExifInterface.java, there is a possible failure to redact location information from media files due to an incorrect bounds check. This could lead to local information disclosure with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product:...

ExpertGPS 6.38 XML Injection

Exploit Title: ExpertGPS 6.38 - XML External Entity Injection + Date: 2019-12-07 + Exploit Author: Trent Gordon + Vendor Homepage: https://www.topografix.com/ + Software Link: http://download.expertgps.com/SetupExpertGPS.exe + Disclosed at: 7FEB2020 + Version: 6.38 + Tested on: Windows 10 + CVE:...

ExpertGPS 6.38 - XML External Entity Injection

Exploit Title: ExpertGPS 6.38 - XML External Entity Injection + Date: 2019-12-07 + Exploit Author: Trent Gordon + Vendor Homepage: https://www.topografix.com/ + Software Link: http://download.expertgps.com/SetupExpertGPS.exe + Disclosed at: 7FEB2020 + Version: 6.38 + Tested on: Windows 10 + CVE:...

ExpertGPS 6.38 - XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for xml platform in category web applications + Exploit Title: ExpertGPS 6.38 - XML External Entity Injection + Exploit Author: Trent Gordon + Vendor Homepage: https://www.topografix.com/ + Software Link: http://download.expertgps.com/SetupExpertGPS.exe + Disclosed at: 7FEB2020 + Version:...

ExpertGPS 6.38 - XML External Entity Injection

ExpertGPS 6.38 - XML External Entity Injection + Exploit Title: ExpertGPS 6.38 - XML External Entity Injection + Date: 2019-12-07 + Exploit Author: Trent Gordon + Vendor Homepage: https://www.topografix.com/ + Software Link: http://download.expertgps.com/SetupExpertGPS.exe + Disclosed at: 7FEB202...