CVE-2016-6180

CVE-2016-6180 is a vulnerability in the Camera driver affecting Huawei Honor 4C devices (CHM-UL00C00 line before builds B564 and CHM-TL00C01/CHM-TL00C00 before specific hardening versions). The CVE family (6180–6184) describes a crafted application that can cause a system crash (DoS) or escalate ...

Many models were found in the presence of a smartphone connected to vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Most of the current on-sale models are equipped with some untold Secret. These prototype software function although it is disabled by default, but the malicious person was able to find it to unlock it. ! As the industry's first comprehensive safety analysis conclusions, NYU Tandon College of...

Beware! Advertisers Are Tracking You via Phone's Battery Status

Is my smartphone battery leaking details about me? Unfortunately, YES! Forget about supercookies, apps, and malware; your smartphone battery status is enough to monitor your online activity, according to a new report. In 2015, researchers from Stanford University demonstrated a way to track users...

Police Unlock Dead Man's Phone by 3D-Printing his Fingerprint

Now no more fight with Apple or any smartphone maker, as federal authorities have discovered a new tool for unlocking phones, as far as your phone is using any biometric sensor… 3D Printing! Yes, Police in Michigan is considering 3D printing a dead man’s fingers so they could unlock smartphones i...

Japan's Softbank buys semiconductor giant ARM for $32 Billion in Cash

Japanese telecommunication giant SoftBank has confirmed that the company intends to acquire UK chip designer ARM Holdings for almost $32 Billion £24.3 Billion in an all-cash deal. ARM has also agreed to this offer from SoftBank and said that its board would recommend the all-cash deal to...

Security Advisory - Input Validation Vulnerabilities in Camera Driver of Huawei Smart Phones

There are five input validation vulnerabilities in the Camera driver of some Huawei smart phones. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can send given parameter to Camera driver to crash the system or escalate user privilege. Vulnerability ID:...

Millet user Be careful a system vulnerability has been hacker caught-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

You use the Xiaomi mobile phone? You the MIUI system is a 7. 2 The stable version before the system? If Yes, then congratulations you won the lottery. Your phone will likely be hack via a remote code execution vulnerability in the control. ! Millet user Be careful a system vulnerability has been...

Warning: Millions of Xiaomi Phones Vulnerable to Remote Hacking

Millions of Xiaomi smartphones are vulnerable to a dangerous remote code execution RCE vulnerability that could grant attackers complete control of handsets. The vulnerability, now patched, exists in MIUI – Xiaomi's own implementation of the Android operating system – in versions prior to MIUI...

This Android Hacking Group is making $500,000 per day

Own an Android smartphone? Hackers can secretly install malicious apps, games, and pop-up adverts on your smartphone remotely in order to make large sums of money. Security researchers at Cheetah Mobile have uncovered one of the world's largest and most prolific Trojan families, infecting million...

Google finally announces Android N's name and It's not Nutella

No, it's not Nutella. Google has finally announced the official name of the latest version of its Android mobile software, codenamed Android N: "Nougat." Yes, the next version of sugary snack-themed Android and the successor to Android Marshmallow will now be known as Android Nougat, the company...

STOP Rule 41 — FBI should not get Legal Power to Hack Computers Worldwide

We have been hearing a lot about Rule 41 after the US Department of Justice has pushed an update to the rule. The change to the Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure grants the FBI much greater powers to hack legally into any computer across the country, and perhaps anywhere in the...

Mitsubishi Hybrid SUV Hack Puts Drivers At Risk, Says Researcher

Security experts are warning owners of Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles that their cars can be hacked via the automobile’s on-board WiFi network used for remote control of key car features. The hybrid electronic vehicle, which is slated to be sold here in the U.S. starting th...

WordPress Patches WP Mobile Detector Plugin Zero Day

A WordPress plugin was patched Thursday night, close to a week after reports began to surface of public attacks against a zero-day vulnerability. WP Mobile Detector was pulled from the WordPress Plugin Directory once the attacks went public. It was restored last night and users are urged to updat...

Google to Face a Record $3.4 Billion AntiTrust Fine in Europe

Google faces a record anti-trust penalty of about 3 BILLION Euros US$3.4 Billion from the European Commission in the coming days, according to reports. After 7-years of the investigation, the European Commission filed anti-trust charges against Google last year for violating antitrust laws. The...

FCC takes initiative to Speed Up Mobile Security Updates

In Brief The Smartphone users are fed up with slow security updates, so two United States federal agencies have launched an official inquiry to know how manufacturers and carriers deal with mobile phone security updates and what they are doing to roll out patches as quickly as possible. The...

Security Advisory - XSS Vulnerability in the Email App of Huawei Smartphone

There is a vulnerability due to the lack of output encoding for some particular characters in the email APP built in the affected Smart Phones. A successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to perform a cross-site scripting XSS attack and lead to...

Hackers can spy on your calls and track location, using just your phone number

In Brief The famous ‘60 Minutes’ television show shocked some viewers Sunday evening when a team of German hackers demonstrated how they spied on an iPhone used by U.S. Congressman, then recorded his phone calls and tracked his movement through Los Angeles. Hackers leverage a security flaw in SS7...

California Kills Phone Decryption Bill

Civil liberty groups and tech firms are celebrating the defeat of a controversial California bill that would have forced phone makers to decrypt their devices by court order. The proposed legislation, AB 1681, died when lawmakers refused to give the bill a vote. But opponents of the bill, who...

CVE-2016-1496

The graphics driver in Huawei P8 smartphones with software GRA-TL00 before GRA-TL00C01B230, GRA-CL00 before GRA-CL00C92B230, GRA-CL10 before GRA-CL10C92B230, GRA-UL00 before GRA-UL00C00B230, and GRA-UL10 before GRA-UL10C00B230 allows attackers to cause a denial of service system crash via a craft...

CVE-2015-8681

The CVE-2015-8681 entry describes an interface access control vulnerability in the ovisp driver affecting Huawei P8 (GRA-TL00/GRA-CL00/GRA-CL10/GRA-UL00/GRA-UL10 variants) and Mate S (CRR-TL00/CRR-UL00/CRR-CL00 families). A crafted app with camera permission can cause a denial of service (system ...