CVE-2014-1276

CVE-2014-1276 affects Apple iOS prior to 7.1 via the IOKit HID Event interface. The vulnerability allows a crafted app to monitor user actions across arbitrary apps by accessing an IOKit framework interface, due to insufficient access controls in IOKit. Apple addressed this in iOS 7.1 (patch link...

Justin Bieber Twitter account hacked, Spammed malicious links to 50 Million Followers

Pop Singer Justin Bieber's Twitter account hacked for around 15 minutes before it was corrected! The Twitter account with 50.2 Million Followers was compromised i.e. Twitter account with the second most Twitter followers. Spammers tweeted in Indonesian language from his hacked account with the...

Internet Bug Bounty: Widespread failure of certificate validation in Android apps

I have identified approximately 75 Android applications and some iPad that fail to validate SSL certificates, either failing to validate valid certificate authorities, correct hostnames or both. I have made attempts to responsibly disclose all of these vulns to the responsible parties. A few have...

Why You need to Stop using WhatsApp?

If you haven’t heard by now, Facebook just made its biggest move ever, buying the messaging service WhatsApp in a deal worth some $19 billion. That’s 19 times what Facebook paid for Instagram two years ago. The WhatsApp Service run by the team of just 32 engineers, handles more than 50 Billion...

Google and Apple app Store removing all Games with "Flappy" word in Title

After the developer of Flappy Bird pulled the gaming app from both the Apple and Google app stores, it led to the creation of dozens and dozens of Flappy Bird clones that are trying to cash in on the popularity of the original title. Also Security researchers from multiple anti-malware firms have...

300000 Android Devices infected by Premium SMS-Sending Malware

Downloading various apps blindly from Google play store may bring you at risk in terms of money. PandaLabs, the Cloud Security Company, has identified malicious Android apps on Google Play that can sign up users for premium SMS subscription services without their permission and so far it has...

BlackBerry Releases Guidelines to Deter Privacy-Infringing Apps

Aiming to shore up user security BlackBerry this week released a new set of privacy guidelines it’s encouraging third-party app developers to follow to better protect their customers. The guidelines apply to customers’ personally identifiable information PII – the bits of information that apps...

Security Vulnerabilities in Apache Cordova / PhoneGap

The following email was sent to Apache Cordova/PhoneGap on 12/13/2013, and again on 1/17/2014. As there has been no response, we are re-posting it here to alert the general public of the inherent vulnerabilities in Apache Cordova/PhoneGap. Dear PhoneGap contributors, PhoneGap’s domain whitelistin...

Angry Birds and other Mobile Gaming apps leaking your private information to NSA

Are you fond of playing games on your Smartphone like Angry Birds or Subway Surfer?? You should now stop wasting your time, because NSA is utilizing your gaming energy in the best possible way. According to the latest documents leaked by former U.S. Government contractor Edward Snowden, Some of t...

Memory corruption

Microsoft Word 2003 SP3, 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, 2013, and 2013 RT; Office Compatibility Pack SP3; Word Viewer; SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 and SP2 and 2013; Office Web Apps 2010 SP1 and SP2; and Office Web Apps Server 2013 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of...

CVE-2014-0260

CVE-2014-0260 affects Microsoft Word and related Office components (Word Viewer, Office Web Apps, SharePoint, etc.). The issue arises from memory corruption while parsing crafted Office documents, enabling remote code execution or, per source, possible denial of service. The vulnerability is mapp...

CVE-2014-0260

Microsoft Word 2003 SP3, 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, 2013, and 2013 RT; Office Compatibility Pack SP3; Word Viewer; SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 and SP2 and 2013; Office Web Apps 2010 SP1 and SP2; and Office Web Apps Server 2013 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of...

Microsoft Office Web Apps Remote Code Execution vulnerability (2916605)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS14-001. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE...

MS14-001: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Office web apps could allow remote code execution: January 14, 2014

Resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted file is opened in an affected version of Microsoft Word or other affected Microsoft Office software. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user right...

MS14-001: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Office Web Apps Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2916605)

The remote Windows host has a version of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Office Compatibility Pack, Microsoft Word Viewer, SharePoint Server, or Microsoft Office Web Apps that is affected by one or more unspecified memory corruption vulnerabilities. By tricking a user into opening a specially...

Microsoft Office Web Apps Remote Code Execution vulnerability (2904244)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS13-100. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE...

Android Fragment Injection vulnerability

Hi, We have recently disclosed a new vulnerability to the Android Security Team. The vulnerability affected many apps, including Settings the one that is found on every Android device, Gmail, Google Now, Dropbox and Evernote. To be more accurate, any App which extended the PreferenceActivity clas...

[Network Password Decryptor v6.5] Windows Network Password Recovery Tool

Network Password Decryptor is the free tool to instantly recover network authentication passwords. In addition to the network authentication passwords it can also recover passwords stored by other windows apps such as Outlook , Windows Live Messenger , Remote Destktop etc. These network passwords...

Mozilla: Script execution in HTML mail replies (MFSA 2014-14)

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird 17.x through 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x through 17.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 allows user-assisted remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message containing a data: URL in an IFRAME element, a...

Design/Logic Flaw

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 and SP2 and 2013, and Office Web Apps 2013, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted page content, aka "SharePoint Page Content Vulnerabilities."...