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Your Tim Hortons Coffee App Knew Where You Were at All Times
The Canada-based company illegally collected “vast amounts of location data,” such as every time a person entered or left their home, workplace, or another coffee shop...
Google Urged to Stop Tracking Location Data Ahead of Roe Reversal
Lawmakers argue Android phone data could be “weaponized against women” if the US Supreme Court officially overturns abortion protections...
Lumos System Can Find Hidden Cameras and IoT Devices in Your Airbnb or Hotel Room
A group of academics has devised a system that can be used on a phone or a laptop to identify and locate Wi-Fi-connected hidden IoT devices in unfamiliar physical spaces. With hidden cameras being increasingly used to snoop on individuals in hotel rooms and Airbnbs, the goal is to be able to...
iPhone Malware that Operates Even When the Phone Is Turned Off
Researchers have demonstrated iPhone malware that works even when the phone is fully shut down. t turns out that the iPhone’s Bluetooth chip--which is key to making features like Find My work--has no mechanism for digitally signing or even encrypting the firmware it runs. Academics at Germany’s...
Facebook to Terminate some Location Tracking Services and Features
By Deeba Ahmed The social network giant plans the years most extensive bulk data deletion, including wiping out users location histories.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook to Terminate some Location Tracking Services and Features...
Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Trackers
Apple Mail now blocks email trackers by default. Most email newsletters you get include an invisible "image," typically a single white pixel, with a unique file name. The server keeps track of every time this "image" is opened and by which IP address. This quirk of internet history means that...
Zenly Social-Media App Bugs Allow Account Takeover
Zenly, a social app from Snap that allows users to see the locations of friends and family on a live map, contains a pair of vulnerabilities that could endanger those being tracked. According to the Checkmarx Security Research Team, the bugs are a user-data exposure vulnerability and an...
CVE-2021-25516
An improper check or handling of exceptional conditions in Exynos baseband prior to SMR Dec-2021 Release 1 allows attackers to track locations...
CVE-2021-25516
An improper check or handling of exceptional conditions in Exynos baseband prior to SMR Dec-2021 Release 1 allows attackers to track locations...
CVE-2021-25516
An improper check or handling of exceptional conditions in Exynos baseband prior to SMR Dec-2021 Release 1 allows attackers to track locations...
Input validation
An improper check or handling of exceptional conditions in Exynos baseband prior to SMR Dec-2021 Release 1 allows attackers to track locations...
CVE-2021-25516
An improper check or handling of exceptional conditions in Exynos baseband prior to SMR Dec-2021 Release 1 allows attackers to track locations...
CVE-2021-25516
CVE-2021-25516 affects Samsung Exynos baseband (prior to SMR Dec-2021 Release 1). An improper handling of exceptional conditions in the baseband’s RRC MeasurementReport allows an attacker to track a device’s location. Impact is described as location-tracking with high practicality on affected Sam...
CVE-2021-25516: Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
An improper check or handling of exceptional conditions in Exynos baseband prior to SMR Dec-2021 Release 1 allows attackers to track locations...
Google Play Sign-Ins Allow Covert Location-Tracking
It’s possible to track someone’s user location via Google Play sign-ins, a researcher has discovered – a potential stalker avenue that, so far, the internet behemoth has yet to address. “With the aid of Google I was able to ‘spy’ on my wife’s whereabouts without having to install anything on her...
Google Play sign-ins can be abused to track another person’s movements
Even people that have been involved in cybersecurity for over 20 years make mistakes. I’m not sure whether that is a comforting thought for anyone or whether everyone should be worried now. But it is what it is and I make it a habit of owning my mistakes. So here goes. With the aid of Google I wa...
Mollitiam Industries is the Newest Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer
Wired is reporting on a company called Mollitiam Industries: Marketing materials left exposed online by a third-party claim Mollitiams interception products, dubbed "Invisible Man" and "Night Crawler," are capable of remotely accessing a targets files, location, and covertly turning on a devices...
Your Amazon Devices to Automatically Share Your Wi-Fi With Neighbors
Starting June 8, Amazon will automatically enable a feature on its family of hardware devices, including Echo speakers, Ring Video Doorbells, Ring Floodlight Cams, and Ring Spotlight Cams, that will share a small part of your Internet bandwidth with nearby neighbors — unless you choose to opt-out...
Apple's Find My Network Can be Abused to Exfiltrate Data From Nearby Devices
Latest research has demonstrated a new exploit that enables arbitrary data to be uploaded from devices that are not connected to the Internet by simply sending "Find My" Bluetooth broadcasts to nearby Apple devices. "It's possible to upload arbitrary data from non-internet-connected devices by...