COPPA Compliance

Interesting research: "'Won't Somebody Think of the Children?' Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale": Abstract: We present a scalable dynamic analysis framework that allows for the automatic evaluation of the privacy behaviors of Android apps. We use our system to analyze mobile apps' compliance...

Security Advisory - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Some Pre-installed Apps on Huawei Phones

There is an authentication bypass vulnerability in some pre-installed apps on Huawei mobile phones due to insufficient validation on invocation requests. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious app which can invoke the open interfaces of the vulnerable apps to install any apps...

Keeping your business and personal instant messages secure

Most people want to know their instant messages are securely wrapped up—whether that's for personal privacy or making sure online scammers can't grab the message content. If you're sending text on a sensitive topic, or perhaps some photo attachments intended for one person only, you definitely...

Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010 Service Pack 2 RCE Vulnerability (KB4018360)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft KB4018360 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Security Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 (KB4018344)

A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability...

Security Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 (KB4018344) farm-deployment

A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability...

Description of the security update for SharePoint Server 2010 Office Web Apps: April 10, 2018

Description of the security update for SharePoint Server 2010 Office Web Apps: April 10, 2018 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities...

Microsoft Office CVE-2018-1028 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Office is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial of service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsoft...

APSB18-15 Security update available for the Adobe PhoneGap Push plugin

Adobe has released an update for the Adobe PhoneGap Push plugin. This update resolves a Same-Origin Method Execution SOME vulnerability CVE-2018-4943 that exists in PhoneGap apps built with the affected version of the Push plugin. This vulnerability could be exploited to trick users of PhoneGap...

Security Updates for Microsoft Office Web Apps (April 2018)

The Microsoft Office Web Apps installation on the remote host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability : - A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Office graphics component improperly handles specially crafted embedded fonts. An attacke...

Multiple Apple Products Kernel Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Apple iOS, macOS High Sierra, tvOS, and watchOS are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices; macOS High Sierra is a specialized operating system for Mac computers; tvOS is a smart TV operating system; and watchOS is a smart watch operating system. kernel is a...

Physician, protect thyself: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

In part one of our Physician, protect thyself series, we recognized significant security problems within the healthcare industry that need addressing. Health organizations moving from the paper to the 'puter—a shift meant to improve care and overall patient experience—inadvertently introduced...

VirusTotal launches 'Droidy' sandbox to detect malicious Android apps

One of the biggest and most popular multi-antivirus scanning engine service has today launched a new Android sandbox service, dubbed VirusTotal Droidy, to help security researchers detect malicious apps based on behavioral analysis. VirusTotal, owned by Google, is a free online service that allow...

Facebook Bolsters Privacy Measures With New Data Access Restrictions

Facebook on Wednesday listed a number of new data access restrictions as the social media company looks to reassure end users that their personal information will remain private. The new measures, detailed in a post by Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, limit the personal data that apps can collect...

Pocket cryptofarms

In recent months, the topic of cryptocurrency has been a permanent news fixture — the value of digital money has been see-sawing spectacularly. Such pyrotechnics could hardly have escaped the attention of scammers, which is why cryptocurrency fluctuations have gone hand in hand with all kinds of...

New Android Malware Stealing Data from Popular Messenger Apps

By Waqas Almost all Instant Messaging Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Line, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Android Malware Stealing Data from Popular Messenger Apps...

CVE-2018-4109

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11.2.5 is affected. tvOS before 11.2.5 is affected. watchOS before 4.2.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Graphics Driver" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of servic...

CVE-2017-13873

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. macOS before 10.13 is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. watchOS before 4 is affected. The issue involves the "Kernel" component. It allows attackers to obtain sensitive network-activity information about arbitrary...

CVE-2017-13873

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. macOS before 10.13 is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. watchOS before 4 is affected. The issue involves the "Kernel" component. It allows attackers to obtain sensitive network-activity information about arbitrary...

Samsung Mobile Device Design Vulnerabilities

Samsung mobile devices are smart mobile devices released by Samsung in South Korea.Android N is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA. A security vulnerability exists in Samsung mobile devices using the Android N 7.x version, whi...