A ‘Magical Bug’ Exposed Any iPhone in a Hacker's Wi-Fi Range

A Google researcher found flaws in Apple's AWDL protocol that would have allowed for a complete device takeover...

Impressive iPhone Exploit

This is a scarily impressive vulnerability: Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bug in the iOS kernel that gave attackers remote access to the entire device­ -- over Wi-Fi, with no user interaction required at all. Oh, and...

Google Hacker Details Zero-Click 'Wormable' Wi-Fi Exploit to Hack iPhones

Google Project Zero white-hat hacker Ian Beer on Tuesday disclosed details of a now-patched critical "wormable" iOS bug that could have made it possible for a remote attacker to gain complete control of any device in the vicinity over Wi-Fi. The exploit makes it possible to "view all the photos,...

Kr00k vulnerability (CVE-2019-15126) in Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chips

During the RSA conference of February 26th 2020, researchers Štefan Svorencík and Robert Lipovsky disclosed a vulnerability in the implementation of the wireless egress packet processing of certain Broadcom Wi-Fi chipsets. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2019-15126 and could allow an...

Unspecified Vulnerability in BASETech GE-131 BT-1837836

The BASETech GE-131 BT-1837836 is a Wi-Fi IP CCTV camera. The BASETech GE-131 BT-1837836 suffers from a device ID predictability vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to connect to the device...

Don’t Put It on the Internet: Tesla Backup Gateway Edition

Derek Abdine, formerly Director of Rapid7 Labs, now CTO at Censys, contributed this blog post. This blog post aims to increase user awareness of the privacy and security risks of connecting devices to the internet. In this edition, we address Tesla Backup Gateways and identify some key areas wher...

Surviving college distance learning during the pandemic: a cybersecurity guide

Social distancing, the wearing of face masks, practicing hand hygiene, and disinfecting often-touched surfaces have become human necessities during the pandemic era. For schools, theyve also had to adapt quickly to incorporate distance learning methods that let students continue their studies. Bu...

Colossal Intel Update Anchored by Critical Privilege-Escalation Bugs

A massive Intel security update this month addresses flaws across a myriad of products – most notably, critical bugs that can be exploited by unauthenticated cybercriminals in order to gain escalated privileges. These critical flaws exist in products related to Wireless Bluetooth – including...

Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® Advisory

Summary: Potential security vulnerabilities in some Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® products may allow escalation of privilege or denial of service. Intel is releasing firmware and software updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2020-12321 Description:...

CVE-2020-28345

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 10 software. The Wi-Fi subsystem may crash because of the lack of a NULL parameter check. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-200025 November 2020...

Null pointer dereference

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 10 software. The Wi-Fi subsystem may crash because of the lack of a NULL parameter check. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-200025 November 2020...

CVE-2020-28345

CVE-2020-28345 affects LG mobile devices running Android 10. The issue is in the Wi‑Fi subsystem, where a missing NULL parameter check can cause a crash. This is described in multiple sources (e.g., NVD/Red Hat entries) with no public details on a fix in the provided documents. Impact is indicate...

CVE-2020-28345

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 10 software. The Wi-Fi subsystem may crash because of the lack of a NULL parameter check. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-200025 November 2020...

CVE-2019-8854

A user privacy issue was addressed by removing the broadcast MAC address. This issue is fixed in macOS Catalina 10.15, watchOS 6, iOS 13, tvOS 13. A device may be passively tracked by its Wi-Fi MAC address...

CVE-2019-8854

CVE-2019-8854 affects Apple devices by addressing a user privacy issue where watchOS, iOS, macOS, and tvOS could be passively tracked via the Wi‑Fi MAC address. The root cause was the broadcast MAC address being exposed; Apple mitigated this by removing the broadcast MAC address. Patches are deli...

Authentication Bug Opens Android Smart-TV Box to Data Theft

A critical bug in the Hindotech HK1 TV Box would allow root-privilege escalation thanks to improper access control. A successful exploit would allow attackers to steal social-networking account tokens, Wi-Fi passwords, cookies, saved passwords, user-location data, message history, emails, contact...

(0Day) Realtek rtl81xx SDK Wi-Fi Driver rtwlanu Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Realtek rtl81xx SDK Wi-Fi driver. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the processing of 802.11 frames. The issue results from the...

(0Day) Realtek rtl81xx SDK Wi-Fi Driver rtwlane Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Realtek rtl81xx SDK Wi-Fi driver. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the processing of 802.11 frames. The issue results from the...

CVE-2020-26597

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 9.0 and 10 software. The Wi-Fi subsystem has incorrect input validation, leading to a crash. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-200022 October 2020...

Input validation

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS 9.0 and 10 software. The Wi-Fi subsystem has incorrect input validation, leading to a crash. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-200022 October 2020...