Google Adds Two-Factor Verification to Gmail

Google has introduced a new two-step authentication feature for Gmail users that it says will significantly increase the security of the free mail service. The system enables users to set up a method for obtaining a secret code that will be required, along with a password, to access a Gmail...

(TAD-2011-001) Vulnerability in HTC Peep: Twitter Credentials Disclosure

Vulnerability in HTC Peep: Twitter Credentials Disclosure http://blog.taddong.com/2011/02/vulnerability-in-htc-peep-twitter.html Title: Twitter credentials disclosure in HTC Peep mobile app default HTC Twitter client Vulnerability ID: TAD-2011-001 Credits: This vulnerability was discovered by...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : moonlight (SAT Patch Number 3728)

Untrusted Moonlight apps could bypass constraints on methods which potentially allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2010-4254 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from SuSE 11 update information. The...

Nmap NSE: Citrix Enum Apps XML

This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 ifdescription...

GTVHacker dev team wins cash bounty for first Google TV hack !

The GTVHacker dev team has won a cash bounty for being the first to successfully root and enable third-party application support on a Google TV device before Google – Google will reportedly be bringing support for Android applications to the platform some time later this year. According to...

Hackers learning new ways to hijack smartphones !

How safe is your cell phone? Thieves are coming up with new ways to hijack the most popular smartphones. ABC Action News investigative reporter Michael George enlisted the help of a hacking expert to find out how these programs work, and how to beat them. Droids, iPhones, and BlackBerries are jus...

Mac App Store Safeguards Bypassed, Opening Up Pirated Apps

Just a day after Apple introduced its Mac App Store, some users already have found a way around the DRM system designed to ensure that they have paid for the apps that they’re using. The technique seems to work only on apps that don’t correctly implement the method for checking the App Store...

Android trojan collects personal data !

In China, a trojan has popped up that uses escalated rights to read out information such as the address book in Android cell phones, and sends the information via the internet to remote servers. As the Lookout blog reports, the contaminant called Geinimi is the most refined method of collecting...

Threats Go Mobile

Smartphone adoption has exploded in recent years, and this has not been lost on the attackers who are looking for the best way to separate users from their money and confidential data. There were several examples of attackers sneaking malicious applications into mobile app stores, some disguised ...

Linux Kernel 2.6.37 - setup_arg_pages() Denial of Service

Linux Kernel 2.6.37 - setupargpages Denial of Service // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44301/info / known for over a year, fixed in grsec bug is due to a bad limit on the max size of the stack for 32bit apps on a 64bit OS. Instead of them being limited to 1/4th of a 32bit address spac...

Linux Kernel 2.6.37 - 'setup_arg_pages()' Denial of Service

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44301/info / known for over a year, fixed in grsec bug is due to a bad limit on the max size of the stack for 32bit apps on a 64bit OS. Instead of them being limited to 1/4th of a 32bit address space, they're limited to 1/4th of a 64bit address space -...

CVE-2010-0113

The Symantec Norton Mobile Security application 1.0 Beta for Android records setup details, possibly including wipe/lock credentials, in the device logs, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by leveraging the ability of a separate crafted...

NSA: Our Development Methods Are in the Open Now

WASHINGTON–Despite its reputation for secrecy and technical expertise, the National Security Agency doesn’t have a set of secret coding practices or testing methods that magically make their applications and systems bulletproof. In fact, one of the agency’s top technical experts said that virtual...

Facebook Apps Caught Selling User Data to Brokers

Facebook's privacy issues are like a centipede with countless shoes dropping. There seems to be no end to them. Recently, the Wall Street Journal reporters revealed that Facebook apps have been inadvertently sharing user identities with advertisers. Companies like Rapleaf use Facebook data to...

Mobile Security Woes Go Beyond Malicious Apps

If, like most Americans, you’ve developed an attachment to your mobile phone that borders on the unnatural and have a hard time going 11 seconds without checking email or texts, you’d do well not to attend a talk by Zach Lanier and Mike Zusman anytime soon. The pair discussed a variety of...

Behind Facebook 'Breach': New Apps, Old Infrastructure

A report of a massive ‘privacy breach’ at Facebook reveals, instead, the rickety underpinnings of the modern Internet straining at the demands of new applications. When the Wall Street Journal broke a story on Monday about a “Privacy Breach” at Facebook, all the elements were in place for a...

MS10-072: Vulnerabilities in SafeHTML Could Allow Information Disclosure (2412048)

The versions of SharePoint Services, SharePoint Server, Groove, or Office Web Apps installed on the remote host have multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. A remote attacker could exploit them by tricking a user into making a malicious request, resulting in arbitrary script code execution...

Stolen Digital Certificates Becoming Standard Malware Components

In the 15 years or so of serious malware production before 2010, there had been perhaps a handful of examples of malicious programs using digitally signed binaries to bypass antimalware systems. The emergence of Stuxnet earlier this year brought this tactic into the center of the spotlight, and n...

WebSuite SQL Injection

============================================================== WebSuite contentid SQL Injection Vulnerability ============================================================== Exploit Title: WebSuite contentid SQL Injection Vulnerability Date: september 21, 2010 Author: josalijoe Category? : Web App...

Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Apps Accounts

Google has added a two-factor authentication mechanism to the login procedure for its Google Apps offerings, hoping that the addition will help cut down on the amount of fraudulent activity on these accounts. The way that Google has chosen to approach the problem of two-factor authentication is...