Garmin Smartphone Link - Customized SSL, Exported components, External URLs vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Garmin Smartphone Link published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Smartphone Hilfe - Corrupted files, Dangerous filesystem permissions, External URLs vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Smartphone Hilfe published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

TV Manager für Smartphones - External URLs, SD-card access, Unsafe deleting vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application TV Manager für Smartphones published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Amazon Backtracks On Encryption Removal

Amazon reversed course on its unpopular decision to remove encryption from its Fire OS 5 tablets. Over the weekend, Amazon said, customers’ device-level encryption support will return this spring. The move comes after Amazon customers and privacy activists expressed outrage over the company’s...

How To Keep Your Android Phone Secure

As the number of threats is on the rise, Android platform is no longer safe, which isn't a surprise to anyone. Most of us are usually worried more about the security of our desktops or laptops and forget to think about the consequences our smartphones can make if compromised or stolen. Unlike...

Nissan Car Hack Allowed Remote Access To Car

Automaker Nissan deactivated a remote access feature that let owners of its Leaf electric car remotely adjust climate controls and check battery status via a smartphone app. The move comes after a security researcher posted his finding regarding a simple hack that allowed anyone with the right Le...

Data Theft Hole Identified in LG G3 Smartphones

A group of researchers are encouraging any smartphone users who own an LG G3 to upgrade their devices after coming across a serious security vulnerability. If exploited the bug could enable an attacker to run arbitrary JavaScript, and lead to a handful of issues, including data theft, phishing...

Google to Speed Up Chrome for Fast Internet Browsing

Google is planning to make Chrome faster in order to provide its users fast Internet browsing experience. Thanks to a new, open-source data and web compression algorithm for the Internet called Brotli, which Google announced last year to boost its web page performance. With Brotli, Google will...

Huawei Smart Phones Local Privilege Vulnerability

Huawei Smart Phones 7 is a smartphone from the Chinese company Huawei. Huawei Smart Phones 7 suffers from a local boost vulnerability. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Joint Photographic Experts Group Processing Unit JPU driver in Huawei ALE smartphones with software before ALE-UL00C00B220 and ALE-TL00C01B220 and GEM-703L smartphones with software before V100R001C233B111 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted application wi...

Samsung Galaxy S6 Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Samsung Galaxy S6 is a smartphone released by the South Korean company Samsung Samsung. The Samsung Galaxy S6 suffers from a denial of service vulnerability. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to crash the affected application and deny service to legitimate users...

Three years ago the libupnp library vulnerabilities, Tencent QQ music finally fix it-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Since 3 years ago of a vulnerability, today there is still 6 1 0 million units of the device may be remote code execution, including smartphones, routers, Smart TV, etc., and this vulnerability as early as 3 years ago has been fixed. The vulnerability exists in the UPnP™device is a portable SDK,...

Security Advisory - Memory Overflow Vulnerability in the Huawei Smartphone

There has a memory overflow vulnerability in Some Huawei mobile phone products. An attacker may exploit this vulnerability to gain the root access over the mobile phones. Then the attacker can further modify memory data and obtain sensitive information. Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-10046 This...

Kim Dotcom's Decentralized Internet — For You, Powered By You

Imagine the internet that would offer you to communicate privately with anyone else without censorship, safe from the prying eyes of surveillance authorities…. … Decentralized, Encrypted, Peer-to-Peer Supported and especially a non-IP Address based Internet. Yeah, a New Private Internet that woul...

It's Now Legal to Jailbreak Smart TV, Smartphone Or Tablet

In our previous article, The Hacker News reported that the EFF had won its battle over the limits that were put on a car's copyrighted software, allowing car owners to fiddle with their car's software. EFF has participated in the rulemaking procedure held by the United States copyright office DMC...

THN Weekly Roundup — Top 10 Hacking News Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

We are back with THN Weekly RoundUp to spread lights on last week's top cyber security threats and challenges, just in case you missed any of them ICYMI. Last week, we came to know about many security threats including how Google records and stores our Voice searches, How hackers can use...

Hackers Can Use Radio-waves to Control Your Smartphone From 16 Feet Away

What if your phone starts making calls, sending text messages and browsing Internet itself without even asking you? No imaginations, because hackers can make this possible using your phone's personal assistant Siri or Google Now. Security researchers have discovered a new hack that could allow...

THN Weekly RoundUp – 12 Hacking Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

Here we are with our weekly roundup, showcasing last week's top cyber security threats and challenges. Just in case you missed any of them ICYMI, THN Weekly Round-Up helps you provide all important stories of last week in one shot. We advise you to read the full story just click ‘Read More’ becau...

British Intelligence Agency Can Hack Any Smartphone With Just a Text Message

Former NSA contractor and global surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden told the BBC investigative programme Panorama Monday night that the British intelligence agency GCHQ has powers to hack any smartphones without their owners' knowledge. You heard right. The British Spying Agency have speci...

How A Drone Can Infiltrate Your Network by Hovering Outside the Building

Imagine you are sitting in your office and working on something confidential. Once you are done, you send a command to print that document. But, What if... ...the whole confidential document send to a hacker attacking from the air? Sounds pity but may be your Boss fires you immediately if that...