Faux Apps Found Hijacking Chrome, Spamming Tumblr

A flurry of fake, ad-laden Angry Birds lookalike games have flooded the Google Chrome Web store of late. The online marketplace where Google sells extensions and games for its Chrome browser has seen an influx of games mimicking “Bad Piggies,” a new game Rovio Entertainment recently released that...

jigbrowser+ for Android vulnerable in the WebView class

Overview jigbrowser+ for Android contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. jigbrowser+ is a web browser for a smartphone. jigbrowser+ for Android contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Gaku Mochizuki of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/...

Yandex.ru платит за уязвимости

Привет. Яндекс опять. Цитата: Конкурс «Охота за ошибками» Яндекс выплачивает награды за обнаруженные проблемы в безопасности своих сервисов. Любой желающий может попытаться найти уязвимость, сообщить нам об этом и получить денежный приз. Где искать На веб-сервисах, а также в мобильных приложениях...

file: Denial of service

Background file is a utility that guesses a file format by scanning binary data for patterns. Description Multiple out-of-bounds read errors and invalid pointer dereference errors have been found in cdf.c. Impact A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Composite Document...

CVE-2012-3743

The System Logs implementation in Apple iOS before 6 does not restrict /var/log access by sandboxed apps, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted app that reads log files...

CVE-2012-3743

The System Logs implementation in Apple iOS before 6 does not restrict /var/log access by sandboxed apps, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted app that reads log files...

CVE-2012-3743

The CVE-2012-3743 entry applies to Apple iOS prior to 6, where the System Logs implementation did not restrict sandboxed apps from reading /var/log. This allowed sandboxed apps to disclose sensitive information from system logs. The described vulnerability is an information disclosure issue with ...

Most Smartphone Users Consider Privacy When Vetting Apps

Cellphone owners now account for 88 percent of the U.S. population, of which some 43 percent say they download applications on their phones. Among these ‘app users,’ 57 percent told the Pew Internet and American Life Project that they have either uninstalled existing applications or made the...

Half Million Chinese Android Devices got infected with SMSZombie

The amount of malware crafted and aimed at Android devices is ever-increasing. With Android being the most popular platform for smartphones and tablets around the world, Android users have become the low-hanging fruit when it comes to writing malware by the nefarious users. A new Android threat h...

SMSZombie Malware Infecting Android Devices, Stealing Money

A nasty new piece of malware that has the ability to steal money from users’ via fraudulent SMS payments has shown up in a Chinese Android market and researchers say it’s infected more than 500,000 victims. The SMSZombie malware is being hidden inside apps on the app market and once it’s on a...

mixi for Android information management vulnerability

Overview mixi for Android contains an issue which stores friends' comments on a SD card. mixi for Android provided by mixi, Inc. contains an issue which stores friends' comments on a SD card, therefore other applications can access this information directly from the SD card. Kazuhiko Kusano of...

Multiple GREE Android applications vulnerable in the WebView class

Overview Multiple Android applications provided by GREE contain a vulnerability in the WebView class. Multiple Android applications that use the SDK for HTML-based applications provided by GREE contain a vulnerability in the WebView class. Takeshi Terada of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc.,...

FTC Finalizes Facebook Settlement over Privacy

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today announced it had finalized its settlement with Facebook, which is now subject to biennial privacy audits for the next 20 years and requires its nearly 1 billion users opt in to any future privacy policy changes. The settlement announcement follows news that...

Sleipnir Mobile for Android vulnerable in the WebView class

Overview Sleipnir Mobile for Android contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Sleipnir Mobile for Android is a web browser for Android devices. Sleipnir Mobile for Android contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Gaku Mochizuki of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. reported this...

OpenJDK: unrestricted use of TimeZone.setDefault() (i18n, 7110687)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 2 and earlier, 6 Update 30 and earlier, 5.0 Update 33 and earlier, and 1.4.235 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality,...

CVE-2012-1861

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Gold and SP1, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Gold and SP1, and Office Web Apps 2010 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted JavaScript elements in a URL, aka "SharePoint Script i...

CVE-2012-1859

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in scriptresx.ashx in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Gold and SP1, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Gold and SP1, and Office Web Apps 2010 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted JavaScript elements in a URL, aka...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Gold and SP1, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Gold and SP1, and Office Web Apps 2010 Gold and SP1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted JavaScript elements in a URL, aka "SharePoint Script i...

CVE-2012-1861

CVE-2012-1861 is an XSS vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Gold/SP1), SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Gold/SP1), and Office Web Apps 2010 (Gold/SP1) where attacker-controlled JavaScript in a URL can execute in the user’s browser. Public sources (OpenVAS/Nessus/Tenable entry MS12-050) referen...

CVE-2012-1860

CVE-2012-1860 affects Microsoft SharePoint components: SharePoint Server 2007 (SP2/SP3), SharePoint Server 2010 (Gold/SP1), and Office Web Apps 2010 (Gold/SP1). The root cause is improper permission checks for search scopes, enabling remote authenticated users to view or tamper with other users’ ...