This document provides a summary of recent cybersecurity news stories. It introduces the author and their background and then summarizes several stories about issues affecting iPhone users on T-Mobile's network, the discovery and removal of spying Chrome browser extension, a keyboard vulnerability affecting over 600 million Samsung devices, how Google can track user events through Gmail without access to location data, a favicon bug that can crash web browsers, a hack of Ola Cabs that compromised user credit card details, and how US and UK spy agencies hacked Kaspersky and other antivirus software to track users by reverse engineering the software. It concludes with a brief item about an extension that can help manage the number of open tabs in browsers.

1. NULL HYDERABAD
News Bytes by Tejaswini

2. About Me
Name: Tejaswini
Masters in Information Technology
Student of JNTU-H
I am a Security Enthusiast

3. Agenda
Blue Screen Of Death(BSOD) Problems.
Samsung Devices Have Vulnerability In The Keyboard.
Google tracking events.
Favicon Bug Can Crash Your Web Browser.
Ola Cabs Hacked And Users Credit Card Details Comprised.
NSA Hacked Kaspersky Labs and Other Anti-virus Software to Track Users.
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4. T-Mobile iPhone Users Facing ‘Blue
Screen Of Death’ Problems
T-Mobile iPhone users are facing the dreaded BSOD or “blue screen of
death” problems with their iPhones.
As per the tweets on Twitter, the issues is affecting iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and
iPhone 6 Plus.
According to Mac Rumors, the restarts happens at about 10 to 30 minute
intervals and it is occurring on devices that run on iOS 8.1 and 8.3.

5. Google removes an extension of
Chromium over spying concerns after
huge public outcryThe extension, called “Chrome Hotword,” was discovered as the primary
cause for giving the browser’s “OK, Google” functionality.
This seemed like an shocking privacy violation;
Google quietly installing software that eavesdrops in to the microphone,
which is not limited to its partially closed source Chrome browser, but also to
the free and open Chromium browser.

6. More Than 600 Million Samsung
Devices Have Vulnerability In The
KeyboardAccording to NowSecure Samsung stock keyboard using the SwiftKey SDK
which allows hackers to access sensors on the device, microphone, GPS,
pictures, camera and even messages.

7. If you are using your Gmail account.
Google can easily track your movie flavors and frequent hangout places
without access to GPS.
Google tracking events

8. Security analyst and software developer Andera De Pasquale has
discovered.
The browser first allows the user to download the favicon file(10 GB) and then
after a minute the user browser gets crashed without any notification.
This bug works on both for mobile devices as well as desktop users.
Web browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari is vulnerable to this bug.
Favicon Bug Can Crash Your Web
Browser

9. Ola Cab is a taxi service, which is been hacked by a group of hackers called
Team Unkown.
They have hacked Ola Cab database including all the information of the
users such as credit card transaction history, vouchers etc
Ola Cabs Hacked And Users Credit
Card Details Comprised

10. NSA Hacked Kaspersky Labs and Other
Anti-virus Software to Track Users
The US and British spy agencies have launched this attack on the anti-virus
companies since 2008 to track users and breach the networks.
The technique software reverse engineering, or SRE, was used to prevent
Kaspersky anti-virus software.

11. It’s really hard to manage so many tabs on Chrome — and Firefox too.
Solution-The Great suspender
Extension to let you manage when tabs should be put "to sleep" or
suspended — anywhere from 20 seconds to 3 days.
Browsers-Memory Eaters

12. Thank You