Wacom Consumer Service - Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation

Wacom Consumer Service: http://www.wacom.com By Ross Marks: http://www.rossmarks.co.uk Exploit-db: https://www.exploit-db.com/author/?a=8724 Category: Local Tested on: Windows 10 x86/x64 1 Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation Wacom's "Wacom Consumer Service" installs as a service with an...

HPSBHF3549 rev.2 - ThinkPwn UEFI BIOS SmmRuntime Escalation of Privilege

Potential Security Impact System downtime, or privilege escalation. Source:HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported by: Dmytro Oleksiuk VULNERABILITY SUMMARY A security vulnerability identified with UEFI firmware, dubbed ThinkPwn, has been addressed in certain HP commercial notebook PC...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: kf5-kactivities-5.24.0-1.fc24

A KDE Frameworks 5 Tier 3 API for using and interacting with Activities as a consumer, application adding information to them or as an activity manager...

Lenovo Accelerator Application Insecure Update Mechanism

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-6718 Potential Impact: Remote code execution by an attacker with local network access Severity: High Scope of Impact: Lenovo products described below Summary Description: A vulnerability was identified in the Lenovo Accelerator Application software which could lead t...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a perpetrator to obtain confidential information

The vulnerability of the Android operating system’s media server is related to the improper initialization of certain data structures. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to obtain confidential information through a specially created application, which is associated with the...

FCC, FTC Investigate Mobile Security Update Practices

The glowing lack of public, real-world Stagefright exploits didn’t stop the U.S. government from using last summer’s blockbuster Android vulnerability as an illustration of the dangers facing mobile device users. Under the context of Stagefright exposing up to 1 billion devices to attack, the...

CVE-2016-2460

mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-05-01 does not initialize certain data structures, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, related to IGraphicBufferConsumer.cpp and...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2459

mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-05-01 does not initialize certain data structures, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, related to IGraphicBufferConsumer.cpp and...

6 Charged for Hacking Lottery Terminals to Produce More Winning Tickets

Police have arrested and charged six people with crimes linked to hacking Connecticut state lottery terminals in order to produce more winning tickets than usual. Prosecutors say all the six suspects are either owners or employees of retail stores that produced a much higher number of winning...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0828

The BnGraphicBufferConsumer::onTransact function in libs/gui/IGraphicBufferConsumer.cpp in mediaserver in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49H and 6.x before 2016-03-01 does not initialize a certain slot variable, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information, and consequently bypass an...

FTC And Asus Settle Over Router Security

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with ASUSTeK Computer over sloppy security settings tied to its routers that left the personal data of 12,900 consumers’ publicly available. On Tuesday, the Taiwanese electronics company agreed to 20 years of periodic security audits along...

FTC Announces Enhancements to IdentityTheft.gov

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has upgraded its IdentityTheft.gov site to provide improved help to victims of identity theft. Enhancements include more personalized response plans for consumers, automatic generation of documents to aid in recovery, and better integration of the site with the...

Samsung Get Sued for Failing to Update its Smartphones

One of the world's largest smartphone makers is being sued by the Dutch Consumers' Association DCA for its lack in providing timely software updates to its Android smartphones. This doesn't surprise me, though. The majority of manufacturers fail to deliver software updates for old devices for...

BSIMM6 Data Shows Poor Health Care Software Security

The folks behind the Building Security in Maturity Model BSIMM, its sixth iteration available today, tout the project as an intersection between science and computer security. “It’s more like a science experiment that escaped the test tube,” said Gary McGraw, chief technology officer of Citigal,...

IOT Security Pits Regulators Against Market

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Listening to today’s privacy panel at the Security of Things Forum, you might have thought you were beamed back to the early 2000s: government people hinting that legislation might be the ultimate solution for security and privacy concerns when it comes to embedded computers an...

Court Rules FTC Has Authority to Punish Wyndham Over Breaches

In the latest installment of a long and winding court case related to multiple data beaches at Wyndham Worldwide several years ago, an appellate court has upheld the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to punish the hotel chain for lax security practices that allegedly led to the breaches...

EFF, AdBlock and Others Launch New Do Not Track Standard

After years of discussions, disagreements, and digressions, the Do Not Track header is supported by all of the major browsers. But because there’s no real requirement for sites or advertisers to respect it, DNT is not as effective as it could be. Now, the EFF, Disconnect, and several other...

Proposed Change to ICANN Domain Anonymity Rule Worries Privacy Advocates

A proposed change to the way that registrars treat the private contact details for domain owners could make it easier for anyone to get information on people who use proxy services. The potential change comes in the form of a document from a working group of the Generic Names Supporting...

Android Factory Reset Improper Sanitization Exposes Data

The churn of Android devices, whether older smartphones being traded in or sold online, makes device sanitization imperative. The native feature in the OS, however, may not be doing as thorough a job as advertised. A paper, “Security Analysis of Android Factory Resets” pdf, published by Ross...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3265-1 (zendframework - security update)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Zend Framework, a PHP framework. Except for CVE-2015-3154 , all these issues were already fixed in the version initially shipped with Jessie. CVE-2014-2681Lukas Reschke reported a lack of protection against XML External Entity injection attacks in some...