JVN#46088915: Yahoo! Browser vulnerable in the WebView class

Yahoo! Browser is a web browser for Android devices. Yahoo! Browser contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Impact If a user of the affected product uses other malicious Android application, information managed by the affected product may be disclosed. Solution Update the software Update t...

Nine Percent of Websites May be Malicious

Just fewer than 10 percent of websites serve some sort of malicious purpose, with an additional nine percent of sites being characterized as “suspicious” by Zscaler in a new research report. Zscaler ran 27,000 website URLs through a tool they developed to assess the security of websites and give...

CVE-2011-4872

The CVE-2011-4872 issue affects multiple HTC Android devices (e.g., Desire HD FRG83D/GRI40, Glacier FRG83, Droid Incredible FRF91, Thunderbolt 4G FRG83D, Sensation lines, EVO lines). A remote attacker with android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE can call WifiConfiguration.toString() to reveal 802.1X...

Researchers Say Carrier IQ Not Logging Texts or Emails, But Has Some Worrisome Capabilities

Security researchers who have investigated the inner workings of the Carrier IQ software and its capabilities say that the application has some powerful, and potentially worrisome capabilities, but that as it’s currently deployed by carriers it doesn’t have the ability to record SMS messages, pho...

SMS Trojans Spreading to the Rest of the World

SMS Trojans that ride along on supposedly benign mobile apps and then send out messages to high-priced numbers have been a problem in some Asian and Eastern European countries for several years now, most notably in Russia and China. But now the attackers have realized that there’s a whole big wor...

flash-plugin: mulitple code execution flaws (APSB11-28)

Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.11 and 11.x before 11.1.102.55 on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris and before 11.1.102.59 on Android, and Adobe AIR before 3.1.0.4880, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service memory corruption via unspecified vectors, a...

viaExtract - Forensic tool for Android devices released

viaExtract - Forensic tool for Android devices released Android Forensics is now easier, faster and more powerful than ever. viaForensics has released viaExtract – Android Logical, a powerful analysis and reporting tool for Android smart phones and devices.Expanding on our popular AFLogical...

Google: Spyware Found, Removed from Android Market

Google says it has suspended a number of suspicious applications from the Android Market after researchers at NC State announced they had discovered a new and particularly stealthy piece of spyware, dubbed “Plankton,” lurking in Android applications there. According to a report by computer scienc...

Geinimi Trojan targets Android devices !

A data-stealing Trojan affecting Android devices has emerged in China. The Geinimi Trojan sends location co-ordinates, unique device identifiers, and a list of installed apps on the infected device to a remote server. Additionally, it can independently download applications and prompts the user t...