CVE-2016-2060

CVE-2016-2060 is a local privilege escalation in Qualcomm/netd tethering controls caused by inadequate validation of the upstream interface parameter. FireEye’s analysis and Qualcomm advisories describe that untrusted interface values can be passed through addUpstreamV6Interface to netd, which ul...

Android Qualcomm Tethering Controller Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Android's Qualcomm Tethering Controller, which can be exploited by a local attacker with the help of a malicious application to...

Android OS may behave as an open resolver

Overview A device that runs as a DNS cache server, which responds to any recursive DNS queries that are received is referred to as an open resolver. Android OS contains an issue where it may behave as an open resolver when the tethering function is enabled. Yasuhiro Orange Morishita of Japan...

JVN#81094176: Android OS may behave as an open resolver

A device that runs as a DNS cache server, which responds to any recursive DNS queries that are received is referred to as an open resolver. Android OS contains an issue where it may behave as an open resolver when the tethering function is enabled. Impact The Android device may be used in a DNS...

CASH! CASH! Hacking ATM Machines with Just a Text Message

As we reported earlier, Microsoft will stop supporting the Windows XP operating system after 8th April, apparently 95% of the world’s 3 million ATM machines are run on it. Microsoft's decision to withdraw support for Windows XP poses critical security threat to the economic infrastructure...

iOS Generates Weak Default Passwords for iPhone Tethering

Business travelers who tether their iPhones as mobile hotspots beware. Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany have discovered a weakness in the way iOS generates default passwords for such connections that can leave a user’s device vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks,...

Verizon Settles with FCC for $1.25 Million Over Tethering Block

In an unprecedented move, the Federal Communications Commission ended a 10-month investigation of Verizon Wireless with a $1.25 million settlement for restricting Android customer access to “tethering” software used to relay Internet signals to other devices. The federal probe was launched after...

Android mobile internet tethering become undetectable by carriers

Android mobile internet tethering become undetectable by carriers When the idea that your smartphone's data connection would be able to be shared by your laptop with no additional charge, everyone seemed to be on board over the past year, carriers have started up extra costs for this and have...

Samsung hires Android hacker Cyanogen

Samsung hires Android hacker Cyanogen Steve 'Cyanogen' Kondik is best known as the creator of the CyanogenMod for Android, an after market customised firmware bringing new features and functionality to the Android platform. There's no information yet on whether Samsung is interested in CyanogenMo...

iPhone 3G S still not enterprise-ready

From Computerworld Matt Hamblen The new iPhone 3G S boasts remote data wipe, hardware-based encryption and tethering of the device to a laptop that would seem to please business users interested in protecting data and enhancing productivity. But no, those steps are not good enough for widespread...