Charlie Miller Takes on NFC, Charlie Miller Wins

LAS VEGAS–Do not stand near Charlie Miller. Actually, you might not even want to let him walk past you. It’s not that Miller is a bad person, you understand. The problem is that Miller has figured out a couple of methods that enable him–or an attacker–to use the NFC chip in some phones to exploit...

CVE-2011-2545

CVE-2011-2545 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SIP INVITE FROM field handling of Cisco SPA 8000/8800 (before 6.1.11), SPA2102 and SPA3102 (before 5.2.13), and SPA 500 series IP phones (before 7.4.9). Root cause: lack of input sanitization in the SIP INVITE FROM field. Impact: ...

CVE-2012-1328

Cisco Unified IP Phones 9900 series devices with firmware 9.1 and 9.2 do not properly handle downloads of configuration information to an RT phone, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified injected data, aka Bug ID CSCts32237...

Command injection

Cisco Unified IP Phones 9900 series devices with firmware 9.1 and 9.2 do not properly handle downloads of configuration information to an RT phone, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified injected data, aka Bug ID CSCts32237...

CVE-2012-1328

Cisco Unified IP Phones 9900 series devices with firmware 9.1 and 9.2 do not properly handle downloads of configuration information to an RT phone, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified injected data, aka Bug ID CSCts32237...

CVE-2012-1328

Cisco Unified IP Phones 9900 series devices with firmware 9.1 and 9.2 are affected by a code/injection vulnerability in the handling of configuration data downloads to an RT phone, allowing local users to gain privileges via injected data (Bug ID CSCts32237). The issue is triggered by improper pr...

CVE-2012-0333

Cisco Small Business IP phones with SPA 500 series firmware 7.4.9 and earlier do not require authentication for Push XML requests, which allows remote attackers to make telephone calls via an XML document, aka Bug ID CSCts08768...

CVE-2012-0333

Cisco Small Business IP phones (SPA 500 series) with firmware 7.4.9 and earlier are affected by CVE-2012-0333 because Push XML requests do not require authentication, enabling remote attackers to initiate calls via crafted XML (Bug CSCts08768). Affected product: SPA 500 series; root cause: unauth...

CVE-2012-0333

Cisco Small Business IP phones with SPA 500 series firmware 7.4.9 and earlier do not require authentication for Push XML requests, which allows remote attackers to make telephone calls via an XML document, aka Bug ID CSCts08768...

Slideshow: How to Avoid Getting Hacked While Traveling

VIEW SLIDESHOW How to Avoid Getting Hacked While Traveling Researcher Justin Morehouse has logged more than 100,000 miles to eight countries in the last year. His message: business travelers are at greater risk of being hacked than ever before, especially when it comes to smart phones and tablets...

Protect Yourself Abroad

Researcher Justin Morehouse has logged more than 100,000 miles to eight countries in the last year. His message: business travelers are at greater risk of being hacked than ever before, especially when it comes to smart phones and tablets. Now the security expert has distilled his research and...

Symantec Experiment: Half Of Those Who Find Smartphones Don't Return Them

Good Samaritans are few and far between when it comes to lost cell phones, according to the conclusions of a social experiment conducted by security firm Symantec. Smart phones are unlikely to be returned by those who find them, but very likely to be perused for sensitive data including photos,...

Video: College Professor, Students Crack Zeus Trojan Mystery

A segment from last night’s Rock Center, Brian Williams’ TV news magazine, gives the inside scoop on how a college professor and his students helped law enforcement crack one of the largest and most profitable banking Trojan operations around. Reporter Richard Engel sat down with Gary Warner, a...

RSA: Chaos In the Security World, And the Situation Is Perfect

Right on cue this week, the anarchic hacking collective Anonymous stepped up and grabbed the story line away from the lions of the IT security industry. With the annual RSA Conference set to begin, the whistle blowing site Wikileaks released the first of some five million e-mail messages stolen...

Researchers to Detail WebKit Zero-Day on Android Phones at RSA Conference

Security researchers will be demonstrating an end-to-end phishing attack on Google Android phones that utilizes a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s WebKit technology at the upcoming RSA Conference. The presentation, slated for Feb. 29, will be a coming-out party of sorts for new security firm...

How Hackers can Track your Mobile phone with a cheap setup ?

How Hackers can Track your Mobile phone with a cheap setup ? Cellular phones have become a ubiquitous means of communications with over 5 billion users worldwide in2010, of which 80% are GSM subscribers. Due to theiruse of the wireless medium and their mobile nature, thosephones listen to broadca...

Cryptographers : Satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping

Cryptographers : Satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping Researchers at a German university claim to have cracked the algorithm that secures satellite phone transmissions. They have broken the encryption of the two main standards used to protect calls from satellite phones, giving them the...

Saudi Arabia's King Saud University Database Hacked

Saudi Arabia's King Saud University Database Hacked The Official Website of King Saud University KSU Got hacked by some unknown Hacker.is a public university located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Database of 812 Users hacked from and dumped on Internet by Hacker on a file sharing site including Mail...

Go Analog

Last – but certainly not least – you could just eschew modern technology and digital devices of all kinds. Landline phones, snail mail and an abacus might be slow, but they also don’t leave a permanent digital trail and, these days, are likely to be overlooked. Images via nate, jronaldlee and...

Losing The Cops In A Foot Chase? There's An App For That

Law enforcement officials in Maryland have issued a warning about the increasing use of smart phones and Web based services to listen in on law enforcement radio transmissions. Gang members, officials warn, are using the smart phone apps to get a jump on enforcement efforts and, in at least one...