Mozilla to Enforce Signing for Firefox Extensions Soon

In an effort to head off the problem of malicious or misbehaving browser add-ons, Mozilla is planning to require developers to have their Firefox extensions signed by the company in the near future. As much of users’ computing has moved into their browsers in the last few years, extensions and...

CoolReaper Backdoor Found On CoolPad Android Mobile Devices

A popular Android smartphone sold primarily in China and Taiwan but also available worldwide, contains a backdoor from the manufacturer that is being used to push pop-up advertisements and install apps without users’ consent. The Coolpad devices, however, are ripe for much more malicious abuse,...

Potential Security Concerns in Comcast Hotspot Class-Action

Cable and Internet service conglomerate Comcast is facing a class-action lawsuit stemming from its use of customer routers as personal home Wi-Fi networks as well as public-facing wireless hotspots available for other Comcast-Xfinity customers. Toyer Grear and Jocelyn Harris, themselves and on...

Users in Dark about Permissions Granted to Mobile Apps

It’s no secret that mobile applications are a greedy bunch, often grasping for many more permissions than necessary. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office ICO this week released the results of a study conducted by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network GPEN that quantified just how bad the...

Internet Bug Bounty: open redirect in rfc6749

OAuth Providers servers that strictly follow rfc6749 are vulnerable to open redirect. Let me explain, reading 0 If the request fails due to a missing, invalid, or mismatching redirection URI, or if the client identifier is missing or invalid, the authorization server SHOULD inform the resource...

Verizon to Pay Largest Ever Consumer Privacy Settlement

Verizon will pay the Federal Communications Commission $7.4 million as part of a settlement over the company’s failure to adequately inform and obtain consent from customers before using their personal information to develop thousands of tailored marketing campaigns. Officials say this fine...

Consumer Groups Urge FTC to Halt Facebook Data Collection Program

A collection of privacy and consumer groups from the United States and Europe has asked the Federal Trade Commission to force Facebook to suspend a recently installed program that mines information on sites that users’ visit around the Web in order to serve them interest-based ads. The groups say...

FTC Discusses Regulating User-Generated Health Information

The proliferation of wearable devices coupled with smartphone apps that monitor heart rates and other health metrics raises an important question: How exactly should the information generated by these devices be regulated? If there’s a fist fight in a bar can a person’s Fitbit accelerator be...

With a Warning FTC Approves WhatsApp, Facebook Union

Facebook’s acquisition of messaging application WhatsApp was approved by the Federal Trade Commission late last week, but not without a stern notice from the agency, which warned that it would be keeping a watchful eye on the two companies going forward. In a letter addressed to officials at...

Android Vulnerability: Install App Without User Explicit Consent

This vulnerability allows an app to install any number of apps with any type of permissions without user's explicit consent. It is based on two things: 1. You can install an app from Google Play using just the browser, even from PC. 2. An app can embed a browser and automatically login into your...

JVN#05951929: sp mode mail issue where emails in the process of creation may be accessed

sp mode mail provided by NTT DOCOMO contains an application link interface so that mail data can be exchanged with external application during email creation. When the application to be linked is selected, the email contents and attachment are saved to the SD card, therefore other Android...

JVN#81739241: sp mode mail issue when accessing attachments in incoming mail

sp mode mail provided by NTT DOCOMO contains a function that allows other Android applications to access attachments for incoming emails. This function contains an issue in the restriction of access permissions. Impact If a malicious Android application is installed on the device, attachments for...

Snowden: Surveillance Has Damaged Internet, U.S. Economy

The mass surveillance programs that he revealed through media leaks in the last year have not only compromised the privacy and security of Americans, but have damaged the country’s economy, Edward Snowden said in an interview Monday. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who sto...

Information disclosure vulnerability in Sleipnir Mobile for Android

Overview Sleipnir Mobile for Android contains an issue in handling Geolocation API, which may result in the disclosure of a user's location. Sleipnir Mobile for Android is a web browser for Android devices. Sleipnir Mobile for Android contains an issue in handling Geolocation API, which may resul...

KLA10329 OSI vulnerability in Sleipnir

Provision of geodata without consent was found in the Sleipnir. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can obtain sensitive information. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed web-site. Original advisories - Exploitation Related products...

Flashlight App Settles with FTC

The makers of a popular Android flashlight application have settled with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that they covertly tracked the locations of the “Brightest Flashlight Free” users and sold that information to advertising firms. The FTC’s charges stem primarily from the fact...

Java based cross platform malware found in wild

Other than Windows, Now other platforms are becoming more popular every day and attracting bad guys who are starting to create malicious code for other systems. Java applications can run on multiple platforms with ease, thus no surprise that malicious code written in Java that is designed to targ...

BlackBerry Refutes Claim Private Email Passwords Sent to RIM

BlackBerry is refuting a claim made by a German researcher that private email credentials are sent by the new BlackBerry 10 mobile devices to the company without consent, possibly in the clear, and that they’re also stored without permission. Frank Rieger said that when users enter their POP/IMAP...

Mozilla Delays Third-Party Cookie Patch in Firefox

Mozilla has tapped the brakes on its plans to block third-party cookies by default in the Firefox browser. Test versions of Firefox 22, scheduled for a June release, were supposed to include a patch that blocked third-party cookie drops by default. However, Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich said yesterday...

Google Play privacy issue, sends app buyers personal details to developers

Google is again under attack for its apparent mishandling of its users' personal information. An Australian software developer 'Dan Nolan' revealed that the search giant was sending him the full names, email and post codes of everyone who purchased his app on Google's Play. In a blog post, Nolan...