Android 17 ends all-or-nothing access to your contacts

Some of the apps on your phone want your contacts. Most don't need them all, but have been happily slurping up the lot for years. Google has decided to do something about that with the next version of Android. Android 17 currently in preview is introducing a new Contact Picker that lets users gra...

Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul

Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in 2025. The new policy updates relate to contact and location...

Exploit for CVE-2024-23700

PoC for CVE-2024-23700, allowing silently obtain permissions to...

CVE-2023-24600

OX App Suite before backend 7.10.6-rev37 allows authenticated users to bypass access controls for reading contacts via a move to their own address book...

PT-2023-17723 · Google · Android

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Android versions Android-10 through Android-13 Description: In the onCreatePreferences method of EditInfoFragment.java, there is a possible way to read contacts belonging to other users due to improper input validation. This could lead to loc...

CVE-2021-31000

A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2, watchOS 8.3, macOS Monterey 12.1, tvOS 15.2. A malicious application may be able to read sensitive contact information...

CVE-2019-20468

An issue was discovered in SeTracker2 for TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge 3.1042.9.8656 devices. It has unnecessary permissions such as READEXTERNALSTORAGE, WRITEEXTERNALSTORAGE, and READCONTACTS...

TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge security vulnerability

TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge is a Gps location tracker from TK-Star, China. A security vulnerability exists in the TK-Star Q90 Junior GPS horloge 3.1042.9.8656 devices, which stems from having unwanted privileges to read external storage, write external storage, and read contacts...

Google Play Store Update Allows Apps to Silently Gain Control of Your Device

Google just made a huge change to the way application permissions work on Android devices which has left a potential door open to malicious app developers and hackers. Google narrows down Android's 145 permissions into 13 broad categories and groups app permissions into 'groups of related...