April 911 Outage Impacted 3.5 Percent of U.S. Population

In the early hours of April 10, a series of errors led to a massive, multi-state outage in the emergency call management centers ECMCs that handle 911 calls in seven geographically dispersed states. The incident originated at an obscure but critical call routing hub in Englewood, Colo., and ended...

Nokia Asha 501 Lock Bypass

Vulnerability: Asha OS Phones Screen Lock Bypass Impact: High Authors: Hammad Shamsi Company: RHAinfoSEC Website: http://rafayhackingarticles.net & https://facebook.com/sh3ifu Introduction The Asha platform is a mobile operating system OS and computing platform designed for low-end borderline sma...

CVE-2013-5144: Undefined Security Weakness

Passcode Lock in Apple iOS before 7.0.3 on iPhone devices allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an intended passcode requirement, and dial arbitrary telephone numbers, by tapping the emergency-call button during a certain notification and camera-pane state to trigger a NULL pointer...

CVE-2013-5160: Undefined Security Weakness

Passcode Lock in Apple iOS before 7.0.2 on iPhone devices allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an intended passcode requirement, and dial arbitrary telephone numbers, by making a series of taps of the emergency-call button to trigger a NULL pointer dereference...

Lock Screen Bypass Flaw Found in Viber for Android

Another day, another smartphone lock screen bypass vulnerability. This time a flaw in a popular messaging application for the Android mobile platform is to blame. Viber, which is similar to Skype in that it allows users to make free phone calls and send instant messages, is vulnerable to a flaw...

CVE-2013-0980

The Passcode Lock implementation in Apple iOS before 6.1.3 does not properly manage the lock state, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an intended passcode requirement by leveraging an error in the emergency-call feature...

Privilege escalation

The Passcode Lock implementation in Apple iOS before 6.1.3 does not properly manage the lock state, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an intended passcode requirement by leveraging an error in the emergency-call feature...

CVE-2013-0980: Undefined Security Weakness

The Passcode Lock implementation in Apple iOS before 6.1.3 does not properly manage the lock state, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass an intended passcode requirement by leveraging an error in the emergency-call feature...

Samsung S3 Full Lock Screen Bypass

====Title==== Samsung S3 : Full Lock Screen Bypass ========Summary======== It is possible to bypass the lock screen on the S3 allowing an indivdual full access to the phones features ==============Steps to recreate============== 1 On the code entry screen press Emergency Call2 Then press Emergenc...

Samsung Galaxy Note II lock screen bypass vulnerability

iOS was in the news lately for a series of security mishaps, but this time android back in scene. A security flaw discovered by Terence Eden on the Galaxy Note II with Android 4.1.2 that allows hackers to briefly bypass the phone's lock screen without needing a password. By hitting "emergency cal...

Samsung Galaxy Note II lock screen bypass vulnerability

iOS was in the news lately for a series of security mishaps, but this time android back in scene. A security flaw discovered by Terence Eden on the Galaxy Note II with Android 4.1.2 that allows hackers to briefly bypass the phone's lock screen without needing a password. By hitting "emergency cal...

Another iPhone Passcode Bypass Vulnerability Discovered

It’s getting hard to keep track of all the bugs piling up for Apple’s iPhone. Now it seems a glitch in the iOS kernel of Apple’s much maligned iOS 6.1 is responsible for yet another passcode bypass vulnerability, the second to surface this month. Attackers can apparently access users’ photos,...

CVE-2010-4012

Race condition in Apple iOS 4.0 through 4.1 for iPhone 3G and later allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the passcode lock by making a call from the Emergency Call screen, then quickly pressing the Sleep/Wake button...

CVE-2010-4012: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Race condition in Apple iOS 4.0 through 4.1 for iPhone 3G and later allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the passcode lock by making a call from the Emergency Call screen, then quickly pressing the Sleep/Wake button...

Apple iPhone 锁屏安全绕过漏洞

Bugtraq ID: 44419 Apple iOS是一款运行在苹果iPhone和iPod touch设备上的最新的操作系统。 Apple iOS新版中的一个严重漏洞，iPhone在处理紧急呼叫时再次出现可绕过锁屏PIN Apple iOS 4.0.1 Apple iOS 4.2 beta Apple iOS 4.1 厂商补丁： Apple ------- 目前没有详细解决方案提供： http://www.apple.com/iphone/ 实现方法如下： 1.在PIN输入屏幕点击紧急呼叫按钮。 2.随意输入一些号码，例如1337并拨打。...

Key Combos Bust iPhone Password Protection

A flaw in the iOS software that runs Apple’s iPhone allows any user to bypass the password entry screen by manipulating the emergency call feature, essentially rendering iPhone passwords useless. The flaw, first disclosed in a discussion on the forums site macrumors.com on October 22, requires...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Passcode Lock feature in Apple iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.1 and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.1 displays SMS messages when the emergency-call screen is visible, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading these messages. NOTE: this might be a...

CVE-2008-4230

The CVE-2008-4230 family describes a vulnerability in Apple iPhone OS 1.0–2.1 and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1–2.1 where the Passcode Lock allows SMS content to be visible while the emergency-call screen is shown. The underlying issue is the display of SMS messages on the device screen when the e...

CVE-2008-4228

The CVE-2008-4228 issue affects Apple iPhone OS versions 1.0–2.1 and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1–2.1. A design/logic flaw in the Passcode Lock feature lets physically proximate attackers exploit the device’s Emergency Call ability to place a call to an arbitrary number while the device is locked...

CVE-2008-4230: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The Passcode Lock feature in Apple iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.1 and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.1 displays SMS messages when the emergency-call screen is visible, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading these messages. NOTE: this might be a...