US firm accused of secretly installing location tracking SDK in mobile apps

By Zara Khan AUS government contractor 'Anomaly Six' has location tracking software hidden in more than 500 mobile apps. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US firm accused of secretly installing location tracking SDK in mobile apps...

Collecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data

The Wall Street Journal has an article about a company called Anomaly Six LLC that has an SDK that's used by "more than 500 mobile applications." Through that SDK, the company collects location data from users, which it then sells. Anomaly Six is a federal contractor that provides...

The NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data

The NSA has issued an advisory on the risks of location data. Mitigations reduce, but do not eliminate, location tracking risks in mobile devices. Most users rely on features disabled by such mitigations, making such safeguards impractical. Users should be aware of these risks and take action bas...

NSA Releases Guidance on Limiting Location Data Exposure

The National Security Agency NSA has released an information sheet with guidance on how to limit location data exposure for National Security System NSS / Department of Defense DoD system users, as well as the general public. NSA outlines mobile device geolocation services and provides...

NSA Warns Smartphones Leak Location Data

Mobile devices expose location data in more ways than most people know, and turning off services such as Find My Phone, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth can help mitigate tracking, but are no silver bullet that prevents a third party from tracking users. That’s advice shared by U.S. top spy division, the...

USN-4432-2 grub2, grub2-signed regression

USN-4432-1 fixed vulnerabilities in GRUB2 affecting Secure Boot environments. Unfortunately, the update introduced regressions for some BIOS systems either pre-UEFI or UEFI configured in Legacy mode, preventing them from successfully booting. This update addresses the issue. Users with BIOS syste...

ASB-A-154934934

In requestCellInfoUpdateInternal of PhoneInterfaceManager.java, there is a missing permission check. This could lead to local information disclosure of location data with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation...

ASB-A-151095863

In getDocumentMetadata of DocumentsContract.java, there is a possible disclosure of location metadata from a file due to a permissions bypass. This could lead to local information disclosure from a file eg. a photo containing location metadata with no additional execution privileges needed. User...

ICSA-20-212-02_Mitsubishi Electric Multiple Factory Automation Engineering Software Products (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Mitsubishi Electric Equipment: Mitsubishi Electric, Multiple Factory Automation Engineering Software products Vulnerability: Permission Issues 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the advisory update...

rConfig SQL Injection Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-43137)

rConfig is an open source network configuration management utility . rConfig 3.9.5 version of the SQL injection vulnerability , a remote attacker can use the 'customLocation' parameter to send specially crafted SQL statements to the devices.crud.php script to exploit the vulnerability to view ,...

The vulnerability of the Windows Network Location Awareness Service allows attackers to escalate their privileges and execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the Windows Network Location Awareness Service in Windows operating systems is related to errors in object handling in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to enhance their privileges and execute arbitrary code through a specially created application...

CVE-2020-15714

rConfig 3.9.5 is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote authenticated attacker could send crafted SQL statements to the devices.crud.php script using the customLocation parameter, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify, or delete information in the back-end database...

Images in Eye Reflections

In Japan, a cyberstalker located his victim by enhancing the reflections in her eye, and using that information to establish a location. Reminds me of the image enhancement scene in Blade Runner. That was science fiction, but now image resolution is so good that we have to worry about it...

About the security content of watchOS 3 - Apple Support

For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, see the Apple Product Security...

CVE-2014-1422

In Ubuntu's trust-store, if a user revokes location access from an application, the location is still available to the application because the application will honour incorrect, cached permissions. This is because the cache was not ordered by creation time by the Select struct in...

CVE-2014-1422

In Ubuntu's trust-store, if a user revokes location access from an application, the location is still available to the application because the application will honour incorrect, cached permissions. This is because the cache was not ordered by creation time by the Select struct in...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Ubuntu's trust-store, if a user revokes location access from an application, the location is still available to the application because the application will honour incorrect, cached permissions. This is because the cache was not ordered by creation time by the Select struct in...

CVE-2014-1422 Location service uses cached authorization even after revocation

In Ubuntu's trust-store, if a user revokes location access from an application, the location is still available to the application because the application will honour incorrect, cached permissions. This is because the cache was not ordered by creation time by the Select struct in...

CVE-2014-1422

The CVE-2014-1422 issue affects Ubuntu’s trust-store component. It causes location permissions revocation to be ineffective because the cache of permissions is honored based on an incorrect ordering and not by creation time, due to the Select struct in src/core/trust/impl/sqlite3/store.cpp. Pract...

Microsoft OneDrive power-up vulnerability

Microsoft OneDrive is a cloud backup application from Microsoft USA. The program features automatic backup of photo albums, online office and file sharing. A power lifting vulnerability exists in Microsoft OneDrive. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker with the help of a specially...