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Security bugs in popular phone-tracking app iSharing exposed users’ precise locations
The location-sharing app iSharing, which has 35 million users, fixed vulnerabilities that exposed users' personal information and precise location data.
Last week when a security researcher said he could easily obtain the precise location from any one of the millions of users of a widely used phone-tracking app, we had to see it for ourselves. Using an Android phone with the iSharing app installed and a new user account, we asked the researcher if he could pull our precise location using the bugs. “Finding the initial flaw in total was probably an hour or so from opening the app, figuring out the form of the requests, and seeing that creating a group on another user and joining it worked,” Daigle told TechCrunch.
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