How to Exploit BitTorrent for Large-Scale DoS Attacks

A flaw discovered in several widely used BitTorrent applications, including uTorrent, Vuze and Mainline, could be used to carry out a devastating distributed denial of service DDoS attack that makes it very easy for a single undetectable hacker to bring down large sites. A new research by Florian...

Memory corruption

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CVE-2015-2468

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We have released a security update to Nexus devices through an over-the-air OTA update as part of our Android Security Bulletin Monthly Release process. The Nexus firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer site. Builds LMY48I or later address these issues. Partners were...

Microsoft Office Web Apps RCE Vulnerability (3080790)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS15-081. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Microsoft Open-Sources Tool for Porting iOS Apps to Windows

At its Build developers conference in April this year, Microsoft announced "Project Islandwood" - the "Windows Bridge for iOS" that lets iOS and Android developers port their apps to Windows. Microsoft finally made another surprise move on Thursday by open sourcing an early version of its toolkit...

Wifi direct system messages don't require a permission — Mozilla

Paul Theriault of Mozilla discovered a privacy issue with a WiFi-related system message that wasn't properly restricted to apps with the "wifi-manage" permission. As a result, even unprivileged apps could have received those messages, allowing them to extract limited information from a vulnerable...

Black Hat 2015 Going Dark Cryptography Presentation

LAS VEGAS – Try as they might, technologists are struggling to find a feasible way to solve the government’s and law enforcement’s “Going Dark” crypto issue. Cryptographer Matthew Green and D.C. intellectual property attorney James Denaro today during a talk at the Black Hat conference made no...

phpSQLiteCMS - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit Title: CSRF, Unrestricted File Upload, Privilege escalation & XSS Google Dork: intitle: CSRF, Unrestricted File Upload, Privilege escalation & XSS Date: 2015-07-12 Exploit Author: John Page hyp3rlinx Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org Vendor Homepage: phpsqlitecms.net Software Link:...

Malicious Gaming App Infects More than 1 Million Android Users

It's not at all surprising that the Google Play Store is surrounded by a number of malicious applications that may gain users' attention to fall victim for one, but this time it might be even worse than you thought. Threat researchers from security firm ESET have discovered a malicious...

UK to ban WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat Under New Laws

If you rely on messaging apps to remain in contact with your family members and friends, then you may have to switch back to old-fashioned text messaging service in matter of weeks due to a new law currently going through Parliament. WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger to Ban in UK The popular...

Microsoft Office Web Apps Installed (credentialed check)

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Bug in Android ADB Backup System Can Allow Injection of Malicious Apps

There’s a severe vulnerability in the way that all versions of Android handle the restoration of backups that can allow an attacker to inject a malicious APK file into the backup archive. The bug is the result of an issue with the ADB command-line tool for Android and the researchers who discover...

Apple MAC OS X Tampering with Application Checksum Bypass Vulnerability

Apple Mac OS X is a commercial operating system. The Apple Mac OS X Failure to Properly Verify Signature vulnerability allows attackers to bypass restrictions and launch tampered applications...

Apple MAC OS X Code Signing Check Bypass Vulnerability

Apple Mac OS X is a commercial operating system. Apple Mac OS X code signing fails to verify libraries loaded outside of the application bundle, allowing attackers to exploit vulnerabilities to run malicious applications and bypass code signing...

Apple iOS Common Profile Application Installation Logic Vulnerability

Apple iOS is the latest operating system that runs on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices. There is a problem with the Apple iOS universal profile application installation logic, which allows an attacker to cause denial of service attacks ID collisions and launch interruptions by specially...

Internet Bug Bounty: Internet-based attacker can run Flash apps in local sandboxes by using special URL schemes (PSIRT-3299, CVE-2015-3079)

Some of the sandbox logic of Flash Player can be circumvented on most web browsers by using special URL schemes. A website can deploy an SWF file via the data: or blob: URL schemes perhaps others. An app started in this way runs in the "local with files" or "local with networking" sandbox,...

Password Stealing Vulnerabilities Outlined in iOS, OSX

A group of researchers from Indiana University say that they’ve found a handful of vulnerabilities in both Apple’s OS X and iOS, and perhaps more worrisome, cracked the Keychain service that the company uses for apps and their sandboxes on OS X. A series of weak app-to-app authentication...

Apple Pushing Developers Toward HTTPS Connections in Apps

Apple is encouraging developers who create apps for iOS to begin moving their apps to an HTTPS-only model as soon as possible in an effort to thwart eavesdropping on insecure, plaintext HTTP connections. The move is yet one more sign that major Internet and technology companies are becoming ever...

OpenJDK: incorrect permissions check in resource loading (Beans, 8068320)

A flaw was discovered in the Beans component in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass certain Java sandbox restrictions...