CVE-2026-34853

Permission bypass vulnerability in the LBS module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability...

EUVD-2025-208236

An issue was discovered in LBS in Samsung Mobile Processor Exynos 2200. There was no check for memory initialization within DL NAS Transport messages...

Coordinated Position Falsification Attacks and Countermeasures for Location-Based Services

With the rise of location-based service LBS applications that rely on terrestrial and satellite infrastructures e.g., GNSS and crowd-sourced Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, and IP databases for positioning, ensuring their integrity and security is paramount. However, we demonstrate that these...

A Survey on Privacy-Preserving Computing in the Automotive Domain

As vehicles become increasingly connected and autonomous, they accumulate and manage various personal data, thereby presenting a key challenge in preserving privacy during data sharing and processing. This survey reviews applications of Secure Multi-Party Computation MPC and Homomorphic Encryptio...

AUTOPSY: a Framework for Tackling Privacy Challenges in the Automotive Industry

With the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR in place, all domains have to ensure compliance with privacy legislation. However, compliance does not necessarily result in a privacy-friendly system as for example getting users' consent to process their data does not improve the...

CPOs Challenged with Meeting Privacy Expectations and Maintaining Full User Experience

SAN FRANCISCO – People who interact with online services have mounting privacy expectations that run in parallel with their need for a full experience with the functionality central to those services. But can users have their privacy cake and eat it too? That’s the challenging question facing...

ToorCon: New Apps, Old Infrastructure Make Toxic Brew

In a variety of ways, experts at this weekend’s ToorCon Conference warned that the tidal wave of new devices and Web based services is straining an already aging Internet infrastructure, with privacy and security as the first victims. Call it the ‘schizophrenia of now’: a tidal wave of new...

Location-Based Services Raise Privacy, Security Risks

The growing popularity of location-based services in the social networking world is a serious security and privacy risk that must be taken seriously. These services, which allow users to share their whereabouts with other people by disclosing their own location, is a very popular trend on social...