Facebook added Free Voice Calling Feature to its Messenger App

Have you noticed a blue color "Free Voice Call" icon that appears next to your Facebook contacts in the iOS and Android Facebook Messenger app? Yes, Facebook has updated their Messenger app that includes the ability to make free voice calls to your online pals and now Facebook users can simply ta...

TextSecure: End-to-End encrypted and Open Source Messaging app

With revelations of NSA spying and some of the most jaw-dropping surveillance leaks, many people feel unencrypted and central-server service is bad in most of the cases, but end-to-end encryption can be used to reduce this problem. Worldwide Government surveillance raises privacy concerns and...

TextSecure Provides Seamless Encryption for All Levels

TextSecure, the secure messaging app developed by the encrypted communication provider WhisperSystems, is no longer merely a private short messaging service SMS application. According to a blog post penned by WhisperSystems co-founder Moxie Marlinspike, TextSecure is now a private, asynchronous...

Design/Logic Flaw

iChat Server in Apple Mac OS X Server before 10.6.3, when group chat is used, does not perform logging for all types of messages, which might allow remote attackers to avoid message auditing via an unspecified selection of message type...

CVE-2010-0502: Undefined Security Weakness

iChat Server in Apple Mac OS X Server before 10.6.3, when group chat is used, does not perform logging for all types of messages, which might allow remote attackers to avoid message auditing via an unspecified selection of message type...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : pidgin vulnerabilities (USN-902-1)

Fabian Yamaguchi discovered that Pidgin incorrectly validated all fields of an incoming message in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-0277 Sadrul Habib Chowdhury discovered that...

pidgin -- multiple remote denial of service vulnerabilities

Three denial of service vulnerabilities where found in pidgin and allow remote attackers to crash the application. The developers summarized these problems as follows: Pidgin can become unresponsive when displaying large numbers of smileys Certain nicknames in group chat rooms can trigger a crash...

53KF Web IM 2009 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Application: 53KF Web IM Vendor: www.53kf.com Corporation: LiuDu, Inc. Version: Latest: 19 JAN 2009 - Home Edition, Enterprise & Professional Description: 53KF Web IM 2009 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Background: ============== 53KF is a web-based group chat tool that lets invite a client...

looyu-xss.txt

Application: LooYu Web IM Vendor: www.looyu.com Corporation: DuoYou, Inc. Version: Latest: 19 SEP 2008 - Home Edition, Enterprise & Professional Description: LooYu Web IM 2008 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Background: ============== LooYu is a web-based group chat tool that lets invite a...

CVE-2007-6315

BarracudaDrive Web Server vulnerability CVE-2007-6315: before version 3.8, remote authenticated users can cause a crash (denial of service) by sending an HTTP request to /eh/chat.ehintf/C that lacks a Connection ID, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. Impact is a partial availability loss per ...

CVE-2007-6315: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Group Chat in BarracudaDrive Web Server before 3.8 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service crash via a HTTP request to /eh/chat.ehintf/C. that does not contain a Connection ID, which results in a NULL pointer dereference...