CVE-2023-20267

A vulnerability in the IP geolocation rules of Snort 3 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to potentially bypass IP address restrictions. This vulnerability exists because the configuration for IP geolocation rules is not parsed properly. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability b...

Geo Targetly URL Shortener Abused in Phishing Scam

By Deeba Ahmed Threat actors are targeting unsuspecting users with tailored phishing scam attacks based on victims' location, making it more convincing than ever. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Geo Targetly URL Shortener Abused in Phishing Scam...

Huawei HarmonyOS 安全漏洞

Huawei HarmonyOS is an operating system from Huawei China. It provides a full-scenario distributed operating system based on a microkernel. Huawei HarmonyOS suffers from a security vulnerability that originates from the existence of a geo-fencing access interface in the LBS module. The...

Hackers Exploiting Infected Android Devices to Register Disposable Accounts

An analysis of SMS phone-verified account PVA services has led to the discovery of a rogue platform built atop a botnet involving thousands of infected Android phones, once again underscoring the flaws with relying on SMS for account validation. SMS PVA services, since gaining prevalence in 2018,...

Authorities Eye Using Mobile Phone Tracking COVID-19's Spread

Authorities in the United States and Israel are eyeing ways to use mobile-phone and other location-based data to help control the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19, raising serious privacy concerns about the practice of using and sharing people’s personal data during the time of a global...

Authorities Eye Using Mobile Phone Tracking COVID-19's Spread

Authorities in the United States and Israel are eyeing ways to use mobile-phone and other location-based data to help control the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19, raising serious privacy concerns about the practice of using and sharing people’s personal data during the time of a global...

Cyber tips for safe online dating: How to avoid privacy gaffs, exploits, and scams

Research and reporting on this article were conducted by Labs writers Chris Boyd and David Ruiz. Dating apps have been mainstream for a long time now, with nearly every possible dating scene covered—casual, long-term, gay, poly, of the Jewish faith, interested only in farmers—whatever you're...

Is Privacy Really iPhone? Researchers Weigh in on Apple's Targeted Ad Tracking

Apple has a consistent track record of implementing privacy controls, which it has been touting via a series of saturating “Privacy? That’s iPhone” television ads. Yet, though it may be deservedly capitalizing on the increasing privacy-consciousness of consumers out there and the negative headlin...

Seeker v1.0.7 - Get Accurate Location using a Fake Website

Concept behind Seeker is simple, just like we host phishing pages to get credentials why not host a fake page that requests your loction just like many popular location based websites. Seeker Hosts a fake website on Apache Server and uses Ngrok , website asks for Location Permission and if the us...

Quick tip: Watch out — restriction by location can be circumvented.

by @Andrey Danau, Wallarm Research If you are like many app developers, you may be using nginx or apache proxy or a web server on the front end of your application. If you are on a tight schedule, it is tempting to tie authorization and data controls simply to the locations defined in the front...

Arbitrary Password Reset Vulnerability in Paco Drive Android App

BaGoDrive is an O2O online and offline taxi application based on LBS geographical location developed by Jiangsu Xunzhi Network Technology Co. There is an arbitrary password reset vulnerability in the BaGeDrivingTo Android app, which allows attackers to reset the password by using the other party'...

Managing Printer Deployment Using Layers in the Unidesk Environment

While many brokering and persona management solutions provide mechanisms to manage printer deployment, you might find it easier to use Unidesk layers. Unidesk layers provide a flexible mechanism for managing printer deployments for different groups of users. When you use Unidesk layers to deploy...

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Share Data with Location-based Social Media Surveillance Startup

Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, VK, Google's Picasa and Youtube were handing over user data access to a Chicago-based Startup — the developer of a social media monitoring tool — which then sold this data to law enforcement agencies for surveillance purposes, the ACLU disclosed Tuesday. Government...

OnionCat - An Anonymous VPN-Adapter (P2P layer 3 VPN based on Tor or I2P)

OnionCat is a VPN-adapter which allows to connect two or more computers or networks through VPN-tunnels. It is designed to use the anonymization networks Tor or I2P as its transport, hence, it provides location-based anonymity while still creating tunnel end points with private unique IP addresse...

Grindr v2.1.1 iOS - (eMail) Session Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Grindr v2.1.1 iOS - eMail Session Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1426 Release Date: ============= 2015-05-03 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 1426 Commo...

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...

Snoopy Project mobile tracking and intelligence grows up

A year ago, the Snoopy Project was a neat research initiative that packaged a number of existing technologies into a framework to profile and track mobile devices. After a summer of Snowden revelations, something like Snoopy takes on a whole new meaning. Snoopy devices, called drones by researche...

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...

Unfamiliar street plaintext submit the registration information of the plaintext transmission-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Unfamiliar Street is Beijing, unfamiliar street Technology Co., Ltd. launched a location-based mobile social products. Its login authentication using a cleartext user ID and password. Detailed description: Unfamiliar Street is Beijing, unfamiliar street Technology Co., Ltd. launched a...