Absinthe Jailbreak for iPhone 4S Released

Less than three weeks after releasing a new jailbreak for iPhones running iOS 5.01, a team of researchers has now published a similar tool for jailbreaking the iPhone 4S and iPad2. The Absinthe jailbreak tool will allow users to run unsigned code on their devices and load apps from places other...

More Apps Pulled From Android Market Over Hidden SMS Functionality

There has been another round of malicious apps discovered in the official Android Market, with this wave containing hidden functionality to send SMS messages to premium-rate numbers. The apps, which Google has pulled from the Market already, are counterfeit versions of popular games, including...

Charlie Miller now working with DoD for Cyber Security

Charlie Miller is a former hacker who has become an information security consultant now working with Department of Defense DoD for helping out with cyber security. He was invited to the conference on cyber conflict held by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Tallinn, where ...

Mac OS X Sandbox Security Hole Uncovered

Researchers at Core Security Technologies have uncovered a security hole that could allow someone to circumvent the application sandbox restrictions of Mac OS X. The report of the vulnerability, which affects Mac OS X 10.7x, 10.6x and 10.5x, follows Apple’s announcement earlier this month that al...

Researcher Charlie Miller kicked out from iOS dev program for Exploiting iOS security flaw

Researcher Charlie Miller kicked out from iOS dev program for Exploiting iOS security flaw A major security flaw in Apple's iOS operating system that could allow hackers to remotely gain unauthorized access to an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad has been uncovered by a security expert "Charlie Miller "...

Researcher Charlie Miller kicked out from iOS dev program for Exploiting iOS security flaw

Researcher Charlie Miller kicked out from iOS dev program for Exploiting iOS security flaw A major security flaw in Apple's iOS operating system that could allow hackers to remotely gain unauthorized access to an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad has been uncovered by a security expert "Charlie Miller "...

Demo of Charlie Miller's iOS Code-Signing Bug

Security researcher Charlie Miller of Accuvant discovered a vulnerability in the Apple iOS software that enables him to use an app he placed in the iTunes App Store to download unsigned code from a remote Web server and run it on any iOS device. In this video, he demonstrates the app and the way...

Apple Drops Researcher From Dev Program Over iOS Bug Demo App

Just a few hours after it became public the security researcher Charlie Miller had inserted a proof-of-concept app into the Apple App Store to demonstrate a serious vulnerability in iOS, Apple informed Miller that it was removing him from its developer program. Miller had created the app, which i...

New iOS Bug Lets Apps Run Unsigned Code

There is a bug in Apple iOS that enables an attacker to run unsigned code on a user’s device, circumventing the company’s checks on apps in the iTunes App Store. The bug, which researcher Charlie Miller identified, can be exploited by an app to take actions on the device without the user’s...

New Mac Malware Variants Found in Trojaned Apps Are Stealing Data

Researchers have discovered a series of variants of the DevilRobber Mac OS X Trojan that have a menu of different capabilities, depending upon the strain, and can not only mine Bitcoins using the infected machine’s processing power, but also steals files, installs a Web proxy and may steal the...

Apple to Require Mac Apps to Be Sandboxed

Apple has informed developers that, as of March 2012, any app submitted to the Mac App Store will have to include a sandbox. The move is an intriguing one from Apple, which has kept a low profile on security and typically handles Mac security on its own. The statement from Apple comes at a time...

CVE-2011-3224

The User Documentation component in Apple Mac OS X through 10.6.8 uses http sessions for updates to App Store help information, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by spoofing the http server...

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The User Documentation component in Apple Mac OS X through 10.6.8 uses http sessions for updates to App Store help information, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by spoofing the http server...

CVE-2011-3224

The User Documentation component in Apple Mac OS X through 10.6.8 uses http sessions for updates to App Store help information, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by spoofing the http server...

CVE-2011-3224

CVE-2011-3224 affects the Apple Mac OS X User Documentation component up to version 10.6.8. The vulnerability arises because App Store help information could be updated over HTTP sessions, allowing a man-in-the-middle attacker spoofing the HTTP server to execute arbitrary code. The impact is limi...

Mac OS X v10.6.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities (2011-004)

This host is missing an important security update according to Mac OS X 10.5.8 Update/Mac OS X Security Update 2011-004. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodmacosxsu11-004.nasl 7015 2017-08-28 11:51:24Z teissa $ Mac OS X v10.6.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities 2011-004 Authors: Antu Sanadi Copyright:...

Apple, Google Need Mobile Security Rethink

Threatpost interviews Mickey Boodaei, the CEO of Trusteer, about the state of mobile device security. Mobile security issues have been getting more press recently – on Threatpost and elsewhere. Partially, this is because they’re new, and because mobile devices are proliferating both at home and i...

About the security content of Mac OS X v10.6.8 and Security Update 2011-004

About the security content of Mac OS X v10.6.8 and Security Update 2011-004 Last Modified: June 23, 2011 Article: HT4723 Email this article Print this page Summary This document describes of Mac OS X v10.6.8 and Security Update 2011-004, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update...

Apple Mac OS X 10.6.8之前版本存在多个安全漏洞

Bugtraq ID: 48412 CVE ID：CVE-2011-0196 CVE-2011-0197 CVE-2011-0198 CVE-2011-0199 CVE-2011-0200 CVE-2011-0201 CVE-2011-0202 CVE-2011-0203 CVE-2011-0204 CVE-2011-0205 CVE-2011-0206 CVE-2011-0207 CVE-2011-0208 CVE-2011-0209 CVE-2011-0210 CVE-2011-0211 CVE-2011-0212 CVE-2011-0213 CVE-2011-1132 Apple...

CVE-2011-0197

App Store in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.8 creates a log entry containing a user's AppleID password, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a log file, as demonstrated by a log file that has non-default permissions...