X (Formerly Twitter): Privacy Issue on protected tweets

Hello Twitter Security Team, Problem: Here is a privacy issue that break your privacy for protected tweets. Details: I have two accounts on twitter @dia2diab and @Dia2diabTest , from the first one i changed the settings of Tweet privacy to be "Protect my Tweets" and now if you access one of my...

MGASA-2015-0110 Updated moodle packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated moodle package fixes security vulnerabilities: In Moodle before 2.6.9, by modifying URL a logged in user can view the list of another user's contacts, number of unread messages and list of their courses CVE-2015-2266. In Moodle before 2.6.9, authentication in mdeploy can be bypassed. It i...

NFL Mobile App Leaks Unencrypted Credentials

Update – As if the National Football League doesn’t have enough to worry about during Super Bowl week with deflated footballs and cheating allegations marring its most important event, a security firm has found a glaring vulnerability in its mobile application. Just in time for the big game, NFL...

Vimeo: USER PRIVACY VIOLATED (PRIVATE DATA GETTING TRANSFER OVER INSECURE CHANNEL )

Hello Team , Description : this report is about how a users private data is getting exploded over insecure channel . while testing the iOS App of Vimeo , i am analyzing all the traffics and came to know the video which is uploaded in my account and which privacy setting is private only is getting...

Phone to grab votes APP“train up”to the presence of high-risk vulnerabilities in the user's personal information and other data leaks-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Data 3 6 0 patch-day vulnerability response platform shows that the domestic popular mobile phone to grab votes APP“train up”to the presence of high-risk vulnerabilities, including millions of tickets, ticket orders user ID number, username, plaintext password, detailed ticket information and oth...

Nearby Live: Gain access to any user's email address

An attacker can gain access to any user's email address by accessing the /points/buy page. This is a serious issue because the email address is used as one of the login credentials for the website. Steps to reproduce : 1. Go to https://www.wnmlive.com/account/points 2. Select "Get more points" +...

Built-In Backdoor Found in Popular Chinese Android Smartphones

Chinese smartphone manufacturers have been criticized many times for suspected backdoors in its products, the popular Chinese smartphone brands, Xiaomi and Star N9500 smartphones are the top examples. Now, the China's third-largest mobile and world's sixth-largest phone manufacturer 'Coolpad', ha...

Uber’s Android app is Literally Malware?

The popular ride-sharing service Uber has been hit by various controversies lately, but now the things gone even worse for the company when a security researcher made a worrying discovery this week and claims, "Uber’s app is literally malware." The ride-hailing company is in disputes of handling...

AOL Releases Transparency Report Lobbies for USA FREEDOM Act

Noting that Saturday was the 13th anniversary of the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Web giant AOL this week released its latest transparency report, detailing estimations of how many Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA orders and National Security Letters NSLs it’s received in the las...

September 2014 Yahoo Transparency Report

There was less clamor from governments and law enforcement around the world for data collected and stored by Yahoo, but nonetheless, the technology giant still fielded more than 18,000 data requests over the first six months of the year. Yahoo yesterday released its third Transparency Report, and...

Draft retrieval in the editor doesn't respect page or space permissions

Drafts are supposed to be per user and private but given a draft id, which should be easy to guess as they are sequential, you can access the contents of any draft, both for new and existing pages by using the following urls:...

Draft retrieval in the editor doesn't respect page or space permissions

Drafts are supposed to be per user and private but given a draft id, which should be easy to guess as they are sequential, you can access the contents of any draft, both for new and existing pages by using the following urls:...

Hacking Gmail App with 92 Percent Success Rate

A group of security researchers has successfully discovered a method to hack into six out of seven popular Smartphone apps, including Gmail across all the three platforms - Android, Windows, and iOS operating systems - with shockingly high success rate of up to 92 percent. Computer scientists the...

Advanced Poll 2.0 - Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7171/info It has been reported that an information disclosure vulnerability exists in Advanced Poll. Because of this, a remote user to potentially access privileged information that could lead to further attack against th...

FTC Asking DEF CON to Help Catch Robocallers

The United States Federal Trade Commission is sick and tired of illegal robocalling, and it’s hosting a contest this year at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas in an attempt to do something about it. The consumer protection agency’s weariness likely stems from the more than 150,000...

openSUSE Security Update : dropbear (openSUSE-SU-2013:1696-1)

dropbear was updated to version 2013.60 to fix following bugs : - Fix 'make install' so that it doesn't always install to /bin and /sbin - Fix 'make install MULTI=1', installing manpages failed - Fix 'make install' when scp is included since it has no manpage - Make --disable-bundled-libtom work ...

statTypes REST API exposes all statistics field names anonymously

On an instance with no anonymous access enabled, /rest/gadget/1.0/statTypes returns a list of all stattable custom fields names and IDs in the instance in response to anonymous requests. This is a nasty exposure of data - admins have no way of knowing that private data shouldn't be put into custo...

XMPP Mandating Encryption on Messaging Service Operators

Beginning today, the operators of instant messaging services that rely on the extensible messaging and presence protocol XMPP are expected to deploy encryption into the platforms they maintain. The XMPP Standard Foundation XSF announced today that a large number of services on the public XMPP...

YAHOO! Now Encrypts Everything; Encrypted Yahoo Messenger Coming Soon

ON HIGH-PRIORITY YAHOO! is finally rolling out encryption implementation over their site and services in order to protect users. Yahoo is rapidly becoming one of the most aggressive supporters of encryption, as in January this year Yahoo enabled the HTTPS connections by default, that automaticall...

Apple Releases Security Updates for iOS devices and Apple TV

Apple has released updates for iOS and Apple TV devices to address a vulnerability that allows an attacker with a privileged network position to capture or modify data in protected SSL/TLS sessions. Updates are available: iOS 6.1.6 for iPhone 3GS and iPod touch 4th generation. iOS 7.0.6 for iPhon...