CVE-2014-6912

The CVE-2014-6912 entry relates to the Android app for The IRA’s 59th Annual Conference (package com.coreapps.android.followme.ira_14), version 6.0.7.6. The connected documents confirm a root cause: the app does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers. Impact stated in the sources is that ...

Memory leak/Denial of service.

Description Samba versions 3.6.0 to 3.6.2 inclusive are vulnerable to a memory leak that can cause a server denial of service. The Samba smbd daemon that listens for incoming connections leaks a small amount of memory on every connection attempt. Although this is a small leak, it happens on every...

Report: UK Newspaper Computer Hacking Could Be As Widespread As Phone Hacking

Investigations by the BBC suggest a widening probe into alleged computer hacking by UK newspapers. In all, the computer hacking may have been as widespread as now-notorious voicemail hacking conducted by reporters at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, and may have compromised classified British...