Health and Fitness Apps Poor at Protecting Privacy FTC Says

A recent study conducted by the Federal Trade Commission examined 12 mobile health and fitness apps and found them sending users’ personal information to 76 different third parties. Jah-Juin Ho, an attorney in the FTC’s Mobile Technology Unit shared the research yesterday during a seminar regardi...

FTC Discusses Regulating User-Generated Health Information

The proliferation of wearable devices coupled with smartphone apps that monitor heart rates and other health metrics raises an important question: How exactly should the information generated by these devices be regulated? If there’s a fist fight in a bar can a person’s Fitbit accelerator be...

Police Ransomware Malware Targeting Android Smartphones

After hacking PCs, Cyber criminals have now begun targeting Smartphones with a special piece of malicious software that locks up the devices until the victims pay a ransom to get the keys to unlock the phone, called Ransomware. Ransomware typically targets users' personal computers and has become...

ownCloud 'calendar_id' Parameter privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ownCloud is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 = "cpe:/a:owncloud:owncloud"; if...

Google to Stop Scanning Student Accounts

Google yesterday announced it will no longer scan the contents of Gmail accounts associated with the company’s Apps for Education service for the purpose of generating advertisements. It is unclear if Google will continue to scan those accounts for other purposes. This decision is one of two...

Facebook Enhances Privacy Settings with Anonymous Login

Anonymous is the new black for Facebook. The social network announced a number of changes to how users interact with third-party apps via Facebook logins, the most interesting being a service called Anonymous Login. Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg told developers at the company’s...

Facebook Introduces Anonymous Login to Limit Third-party App Permissions

We're comfortable in sharing information with our Facebook friends, but it is quite sneaky for Facebook users to offer their Identities and credentials when logging in to third-party apps, they don’t trust. To deal with this issue, the social network giant has plans to improve the way users login...

Google Removes Bitcoin Mining Android Malware from Play

Google recently removed five bogus wallpaper apps from its Play marketplace after they were deemed malicious and found sneakily mining Bitcoins. The malware, dubbed BadLepricon, was spotted funneling Bitcoin into wallets and allowed the attacker to change mining pools easily to maximize the minin...

Android Bitcoin-Mining Malware found on Google Play Store

Google always bound to face trouble over the wide and open nature of its app checking policies on Google Play Store, and despite so many security measures, the search engine giant mostly fails to recognize the Android malware that are lurking around its Google Play store in vast numbers. Recently...

New NIST AppVet Aims to Streamline Application Security

Apple and Google put developers’ apps through a relatively vigorous screening process before they make their way into their respective app stores. Now developers who produce apps intended for use on internal networks at government agencies can get a vetting process of their own. The National...

Content Provider in CamiApp for Android fails to restrict access permissions

Overview The Content Provider in CamiApp for Android provided by KOKUYO S Co.,Ltd. contains an issue where access permissions are not restricted. Hiroshi Kumagai reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership. Impa...

Microsoft Office Web Apps Memory Corruption Vulnerability (2949660)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS14-017. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 =...

April Patch Tuesday Fixes 11 Vulnerabilities, Last Updates for XP

As expected, Microsoft issued its final epitaph for Windows XP today, pushing out four security bulletins for 11 vulnerabilities, including the last updates for the oft-maligned, thirteen-year-old operating system. Despite it being XP’s last gasp from a security standpoint, it’s actually a...

Microsoft Releases April 2014 Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, Office Services, Web Apps, Windows and Internet Explorer as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April, 2014. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code executions. US-CERT encourages users and...

Description of the Office Web Apps update 2687504: April 8, 2014

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MS14-017: Description of the security update for Office Web Apps Server 2013: April 8, 2014

Resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted file is opened in an affected version of Microsoft Office.IntroductionThis update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted...

MS14-017: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Office Web Apps Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2949660) (Mac OS X)

The remote Mac OS X host is running a version of Microsoft Word that is affected by one or more unspecified memory corruption vulnerabilities. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted file, it may be possible for a remote attacker to take complete control of the system or execute...

PT-2015-3695 · Gtk+ Team +1 · Gtk+ +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GTK+ versions 3.10.9 and earlier Description: The issue allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock screen by pressing the menu button in applications that use GTK+, such as cinnamon-screensaver and gnome-screensaver...

Researchers explained How ANGRY BIRDS Sharing Your Personal Data

We are already aware about the fact that most probably every mobile app is collecting our data in one or the other form. Thanks to Edward Snowden, who provided the secret documents that revealed that the world's most popular Smartphone applications, including gaming apps such as Angry Birds, are...

FTC Settles With Fandango, Credit Karma Over SSL Issues in Mobile Apps

The makers of two major mobile apps, Fandango and Credit Karma, have settled with the Federal Trade Commission after the commission charged that they deliberately misrepresented the security of their apps and failed to validate SSL certificates. The apps promised users that their data was being...