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CVE-2022-41590
Some smartphones have authentication-related including session management vulnerabilities as the setup wizard is bypassed. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability affects the smartphone availability...
Attackers Can Use Electromagnetic Signals to Control Touchscreens Remotely
Researchers have demonstrated what they call the "first active contactless attack against capacitive touchscreens." GhostTouch, as it's called, "uses electromagnetic interference EMI to inject fake touch points into a touchscreen without the need to physically touch it," a group of academics from...
Samsung Screwed Up Encryption on 100M Phones
Samsung shipped an estimated 100 million smartphones with botched encryption, including models ranging from the 2017 Galaxy S8 on up to last year’s Galaxy S21. Researchers at Tel Aviv University found what they called “severe” cryptographic design flaws that could have let attackers siphon the...
Frotcom for Smartphone - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities
HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Frotcom for Smartphone published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...
Teach you how to use the exploit to ROOT an Android phone-bug warning-the black bar safety net
As mobile the rapid development of Internet, smart phones, tablet PCs and other intelligent terminal equipment gradually popular, and slowly integrated into our lives. However at the same time the smartphone security issues are also increasingly prominent, the mobile payment vulnerabilities, mobi...
Vendor Customizations Lead to Android Security Issues
When Android phone manufacturers tweak devices and customize phones with special software, apps and code, it has a direct effect on the security of each device. In some cases, the changes made can account for more than 60 percent of vulnerabilities found in devices. That’s according to a paper “T...
Android Bloatware, Another Serious Android Privacy Issue
Android Bloatware , Another Serious Android Privacy Issue Researchers have found that some Android smartphones are more vulnerable to attacks than others, thanks to add-on software and skins that get installed by handset makers before they ship their smartphones to subscribers. It's not just...
Researchers Expose Security Flaw in Internet-Ready HDTVs
Researchers at Mocana, a security technology firm in San Francisco, recently demonstrated the ease with which they could hack into a popular Internet-ready HDTV model. They exploited a vulnerability in the software that displays websites on the TV, allowing them to control the information sent to...