Eavesdropping on GSM: Cheap and Easy

GSM mobile phone networks are becoming the backbone of communications and commerce in the developed and developing worlds, but those networks may be easily susceptible to eavesdropping, according to a presentation at the annual Chaos Communication Congress CCC in Berlin. The BBC Reported that...

India to Increase Phone Banking Security Starting Next Month !

Starting with January 1st, 2011, Indian banks will require an additional security code in order to authorise phone banking transactions, according to regulatory guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India RBI. Known as one-time passwords OTP, these codes are part of what is known as two-factor...

Simplest Phones Open to 'SMS of Death' !

It's a scene from an as-yet-unmade thriller: Across a country, tens of thousands of cellphones all blink white at the same, and turn themselves off. Calls are lost, phones are rendered useless, and the affected mobile operator is forced to pay a ransom or lose customers. It hasn't happened yet. B...

Cops hunt for the hacker who tapped Y P Singh's phone in 60 seconds !

News Taken From mumbaimirror.com, The news is as follows... Thane Crime Branch has set up an inquiry into the matter and a team to track down Sachin Loke after reading the Mumbai Mirror exposé A day after Mumbai Mirror exposed how small-time detectives and software professionals offer phone-tappi...

Police Change Approach to Phone Hacking Case Involving Andy Coulson

The police have changed their approach to a phone hacking incident that could affect Andy Coulson. Coulson, the media adviser for the Prime Minister, was previously an editor for the News of the World. The police have taken steps to halt the flow of information that could implicate high-ranking...

The Pros And Cons of Jailbreaking Your Phone

Does jailbreaking your mobile phone make it less secure? Kaspersky Lab Director of Global Research and Analysis Costin Raiu offers his thoughts in this exclusive video Q&A with Threatpost Editor Ryan Naraine. Jailbreaking your iPhone was, at one time, an activity limited to serious hardware hacke...

Fiddler v2.3.1.0 ( Web Debugging Proxy tool ) - Latest Version Download

"Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTPS traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTPS traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended...

Ears Perk Interest As New Biometric Identifier

There’s more to ears than meets the eye, at least according to recently released report by UK researchers, which finds that ear shape may be a more reliable measure of individuality than the widely-used fingerprint. Ear shape is gaining new ground to become a credible biometric, according to the...

Android G2 Phone Can Roll Back Jailbreaks

Since at least the time of the release of the first generation Apple iPhone, sophisticated smartphone users have been working diligently to jailbreak their devices in order to load their own software, install third-party applications and make other modifications. Now, one Android device, the G2...

windows Mobile 6.5 TR Phone Call Shellcode

Exploit for win32 platform in category shellcode ========================================== windows Mobile 6.5 TR Phone Call Shellcode ========================================== / Device: HTC Touch2 System: Windows Mobile 6.5 TR WinCE 5.0.2 Coded by Celil ‹n¸ver from SecurityArchitect Contact:...

Windows Mobile 6.5 TR Phone Call Shellcode

Windows Mobile 6.5 TR Phone Call Shellcode. Shellcode exploit for windows platform Title: Windows Mobile 6.5 TR Phone Call Shellcode Author: Celil Ünüver / Device: HTC Touch2 System: Windows Mobile 6.5 TR WinCE 5.0.2 Coded by Celil ‹n¸ver from SecurityArchitect Contact: celilunuvernspamgmail.com...

CVE-2009-4939

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in index.php in AdPeeps 8.5d1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 uid parameter, 2 uid parameter in a loginlookup action, 3 uid parameter in an adminlogin action, 4 campaignid parameter in a createcampaign actio...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.mobile-phone-links.co.uk

Security researcher invisiblehacker, has submitted on 29/06/2010 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.mobile-phone-links.co.uk, which at the time of submission ranked 25458166 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on...

On the Disclosure Debate, the Value of Zero Days and the Privacy of Android Phones

In this episode, Ryan Naraine and Dennis Fisher discuss the relative value of the never-ending disclosure debate, the value of zero-days and whether users should be worried about the ability of Google to remotely install apps on Android phones. swf...

Credit Unions Targets of Smishing Attacks

A new report found that credit unions continue to be a favorite target of smishing attacks, and that text-to-phone scams used a toll-free number in about half of the lures sent in the first quarter of 2010. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

AT&T iPad Hack May Be Worse Than Initially Thought

Researchers looking into the security of GSM phone networks are suggesting that the recent breach, which saw tens of thousands of e-mail addresses and ICC-IDs inadvertantly disclosed AT&T, could have far more significant implications than a bit of extra spam: attackers can use the information to...

CVE-2010-2291

Unspecified vulnerability in the web interface in snom VoIP Phone firmware 8 before 8.2.35 allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions and modify user credentials via unknown vectors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information...

CVE-2010-2291

Unspecified vulnerability in the web interface in snom VoIP Phone firmware 8 before 8.2.35 allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions and modify user credentials via unknown vectors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information...

CVE-2010-2291

CVE-2010-2291 affects snom VoIP Phone firmware 8.x up to 8.2.34, where the web interface contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows remote attackers to bypass restrictions and modify user credentials. The public descriptions note the vectors are unknown, with an attacker able to alter cred...

CVE-2010-2291: Undefined Security Weakness

Unspecified vulnerability in the web interface in snom VoIP Phone firmware 8 before 8.2.35 allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions and modify user credentials via unknown vectors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information...