Hackers Can Read Your Private SMS and Listen to Phone Calls

Security researchers have discovered a massive security flaw that could let hackers and cybercriminals listen to private phone calls and read text messages on a potentially vast scale – no matter if the cellular networks use the latest and most advanced encryption available. The critical flaw lie...

openSUSE Security Update : telepathy-gabble (openSUSE-SU-2011:0303-1)

This update of telepathy-gabble is validating the origin of a google:jingleinfo update message now. Not validating the origin could be used to intercept calls. CVE-2011-1000: CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N: Input Validation CWE-20 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security...

Threats Go Mobile

Smartphone adoption has exploded in recent years, and this has not been lost on the attackers who are looking for the best way to separate users from their money and confidential data. There were several examples of attackers sneaking malicious applications into mobile app stores, some disguised ...