How to securely send your personal information

This story originally ran on The Parallax and was updated on July 3, 2019. A few months ago, my parents asked a great security question: How could they securely send their passport numbers to a travel agent? They knew email wasn’t safe on its own. Standard email indeed isn’t safe for sending...

Airport Facial Recognition, How Abusers Exploit Basic Apps, and More News

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Mobile app building is simple and affordable – the Appy Pie way!

By Owais Sultan Steve Jobs had it right! There is an app for everything and businesses today, big and small, are realizing it. Mobile apps, in their limited time of existence, have made a massive impact on the industry and creating mobile apps is not limited to just the big leagues. This is a pos...

Helping survivors of domestic abuse: What to do when you find stalkerware

We’re going to talk about something different today. We’re going to talk about domestic abuse. Earlier this year, cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab announced that the latest upgrade to its Android app would inform users about whether their devices were running stealthy, behind-the-scenes...

Fake jquery campaign leads to malvertising and ad fraud schemes

Recently we became aware of new domains used by an old malware campaign known as 'fake jquery', previously documented by web security firm Sucuri. Thousands of compromised websites are injected with a reference to an external JavaScript called jquery.js. However, there is something quite elusive...

9 risky apps that you need to monitor on your kids’ smartphone

By Owais Sultan Parents should know if their under 18 child has these apps on their smartphone - No underage child should use these apps. Apart from being a great invention, smartphones are also taken as a most apt tool for killing time. Kids between the age of 11-19 spend 90 percent of their tim...

A week in security (June 17 – 23)

Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at the growing pains of smart cities, took a deep dive into AI, jammed along to Radiohead, and looked at the lessons learned from Chernobyl in relation to critical infrastructure. We also explored a new Steam phish attack, and pulled apart a...

Mobile stalkerware: a long history of detection

Recently, we have received an alarming question from many Malwarebytes users, asking, “Do you detect stalkerware?” The answer is an overwhelming, “Absolutely, and for good reason!” Moreover, we have been doing so for a long time, and are expanding our efforts in the months to come. Going back mor...

Podcast: Dating App Privacy and NASA Cyberattack

Beyond the regular drumbeat of security vulnerabilities and patches this week, a slew of stories covered varying topics ranging from NASA to Tinder. The Threatpost team broke down the most interesting stories of the week, including: A ransomware webinar hosted by Threatpost editor Tara Seals, whi...

Threat Source newsletter (June 20, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. This week, we disclosed two vulnerabilities in KCodes’ NetUSB kernel module contains that could allow an attacker to inappropriatel...

Troubleshooting HDX Optimization for Microsoft Teams

This is a Live article - updated frequently with the latest info and known issues ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recommended Teams version :latest version. Update history for...

CVE-2017-9381

An issue was discovered on Vera VeraEdge 1.7.19 and Veralite 1.7.481 devices. The device provides a user with the capability of installing or deleting apps on the device using the web management interface. It seems that the device does not implement any cross-site request forgery protection...

Samsung Galaxy Apps Trust Management Issue Vulnerability

Samsung Galaxy Apps is a pre-installed application store program for Samsung mobile devices from Samsung South Korea. A security vulnerability exists in Samsung Galaxy Apps versions prior to 4.4.01.7. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to modify the hostname to mimic the app store's API,...

Description of the security update for SharePoint Server 2010 Office Web Apps: June 11, 2019

Description of the security update for SharePoint Server 2010 Office Web Apps: June 11, 2019 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,...

Design/Logic Flaw

Ruby OpenID aka ruby-openid through 2.8.0 has a remotely exploitable flaw. This library is used by Rails web applications to integrate with OpenID Providers. Severity can range from medium to critical, depending on how a web application developer chose to employ the ruby-openid library. Developer...

CVE-2019-11027

Ruby OpenID aka ruby-openid through 2.8.0 has a remotely exploitable flaw. This library is used by Rails web applications to integrate with OpenID Providers. Severity can range from medium to critical, depending on how a web application developer chose to employ the ruby-openid library. Developer...

CVE-2018-20135

Samsung Galaxy Apps before 4.4.01.7 allows modification of the hostname used for load balancing on installations of applications through a man-in-the-middle attack. An attacker may trick Galaxy Apps into using an arbitrary hostname for which the attacker can provide a valid SSL certificate, and...

CVE-2018-20135

Samsung Galaxy Apps before 4.4.01.7 allows modification of the hostname used for load balancing on installations of applications through a man-in-the-middle attack. An attacker may trick Galaxy Apps into using an arbitrary hostname for which the attacker can provide a valid SSL certificate, and...

Design/Logic Flaw

Samsung Galaxy Apps before 4.4.01.7 allows modification of the hostname used for load balancing on installations of applications through a man-in-the-middle attack. An attacker may trick Galaxy Apps into using an arbitrary hostname for which the attacker can provide a valid SSL certificate, and...

CVE-2018-20135

Samsung Galaxy Apps before 4.4.01.7 allows modification of the hostname used for load balancing on installations of applications through a man-in-the-middle attack. An attacker may trick Galaxy Apps into using an arbitrary hostname for which the attacker can provide a valid SSL certificate, and...