Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?

The past month has seen one blockbuster revelation after another about how our mobile phone and broadband providers have been leaking highly sensitive customer information, including real-time location data and customer account details. In the wake of these consumer privacy debacles, many are lef...

Mobile Giants: Please Don’t Share the Where

Your mobile phone is giving away your approximate location all day long. This isn't exactly a secret: It has to share this data with your mobile provider constantly to provide better call quality and to route any emergency 911 calls straight to your location. But now, the major mobile providers i...

BD Kiestra and InoquIA Systems (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.3 ATTENTION : Exploitable from adjacent network Vendor : Becton, Dickinson and Company BD Equipment : BD Kiestra and InoqulA systems Vulnerabilities : Product UI does not Warn User of Unsafe Actions 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the...

Tracking firm caught leaking realtime location data of US Mobile users

By Waqas Location tracking firm "LocationSmart" has been caught putting the physical This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Tracking firm caught leaking realtime location data of US Mobile users...

Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers Without Consent in Real Time Via Its Web Site

LocationSmart, a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy component of its Web site -- without the need for any password or other form of authentication or...

Accessing Cell Phone Location Information

The New York Times is reporting about a company called Securus Technologies that gives police the ability to track cell phone locations without a warrant: The service can find the whereabouts of almost any cellphone in the country within seconds. It does this by going through a system typically...

Rest Devices Mimo Baby Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability

Rest Devices Mimo Baby is a baby sleep tracker device from Rest Devices UK. A security vulnerability exists in Rest Devices Mimo Baby version 2, which stems from the program failing to properly perform authentication or encryption for Bluetooth Low Energy BLE communication between the Turtle and...

Phishing Spy Campaign Targets Top Mideast Officials

Researchers have discovered a phishing campaign that infected Android devices with custom surveillance-ware bent on extracting data from top officials, primarily in the Middle East. Researchers at Lookout Security told Threatpost that the tool, dubbed Stealth Mango, has been used to collect over ...

OpenSLP Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Lenovo ThinkServer RD350G, etc. are products of Lenovo China.Lenovo ThinkServer RD350G, RD350X, RD450X, and HR650 are rackmount servers; N3310, N4610 are NAS storage devices; Fan Power Controller FPC is a fan speed controller.OpenSLP Service Location Protocol is an IETF standard protocol develope...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID32722: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on May 8, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 57826 First Published: 2018 May 8 16:28 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID32722 may contain the following files: Name | Size ...

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...

CVE-2018-1313

In Apache Derby 10.3.1.4 to 10.14.1.0, a specially-crafted network packet can be used to request the Derby Network Server to boot a database whose location and contents are under the user's control. If the Derby Network Server is not running with a Java Security Manager policy file, the attack is...

Penetration Testers Framework: PTF

The PenTesters Framework PTF is a Python script designed for Debian/Ubuntu/ArchLinux based distributions to create a similar and familiar distribution for Penetration Testing. As pentesters, we’ve been accustom to the /pentest/ directories or our own toolsets that we want to keep up-to-date all o...

Microsoft Windows: Turn off Windows Location Provider

This policy setting turns off the Windows Location Provider feature. If enabled, the Windows Location Provider feature is turned off, and programs are not able to use the Windows Location Provider feature. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winlocationprovider.nasl 11363 2018-09-12 13:46:05Z emoss $...

Insecure path handling in Bundler

Bundler prior to 2.1.0 uses a predictable path in /tmp/, created with insecure permissions as a storage location for gems, if locations under the user's home directory are not available. If Bundler is used in a scenario where the user does not have a writable home directory, an attacker could pla...

CVE-2016-10416

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9615, MDM9625, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 600, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD...

Leaking ads

When we use popular apps with good ratings from official app stores we assume they are safe. This is partially true – usually these apps have been developed with security in mind and have been reviewed by the app store's security team. However, we found that because of third-party SDKs many popul...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0367

Mediawiki before 1.28.1 / 1.27.2 contains an unsafe use of temporary directory, where having LocalisationCache directory default to system tmp directory is insecure...

CVE-2018-3591

In Android before security patch level 2018-04-05 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9650, MDM9655, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 820, SD 835, SD 845, SDM630, SDM636,...

hotelpodwawelem.pl XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-598787 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| hotelpodwawelem.pl Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...