AdiOS Finds iOS Apps Capable of Dumping Users' Contacts

It’s gotten to the point now where it’s almost easier to talk about the mobile apps and services that don’t ship your personal data off to some remote server for purposes unknown rather than discussing the ones that do. The latest discussion of privacy invading apps flowed from the discovery that...

Android.Bmaster Exploits root access to connect to Botnet

Android.Bmaster Exploits root access to connect to Botnet A new piece of Android malware named Android.Bmaster, first highlighted by researcher Xuxian Jiang at North Carolina State University, was uncovered on a third-party marketplace and is bundled with a legitimate application for configuring...

HITB2011KUL - Mobile Malware Analysis

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Mobile Malware Analysis References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/424.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVAuZ7jf7Sk Release Date: ============= 2012-02-05 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

HITB2011KUL - Mobile Malware Analysis

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Mobile Malware Analysis References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/424.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVAuZ7jf7Sk Release Date: ============= 2012-02-05 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Google Begins Security Review Process for Android Apps

After a couple of years of seeing headlines announcing a steady stream of pieces of malware and trojaned apps appearing the Android Market, Google finally has taken steps to find and remove malicious apps from the market automatically. The company has unveiled a service called Bouncer that scans...

FBI will Monitor Social Media using Crawl Application

FBI will Monitor Social Media using Crawl Application The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a better way to spy on Facebook and Twitter users. The Bureau is asking companies to build software that can effectively scan social media online for significant words, phrases and behavior so...

SuSE 10 Security Update : ZMD (ZYPP Patch Number 7857)

This update of ZMD fixes the following issues : - use the certificates from openssl-certs. bnc723034 - retrieve and handle susedata.xml.gz. bnc722339 - fix restart behavior on update bnc731031 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, In...

Reverse incremental job scheduling does not work properly

Challenge Reverse incremental job starts ignoring their scheduled settings, and run on the days selected for Synthetic Fulls, even when the check-box is grayed out. Solution To resolve the issue you need to enable forward incremental mode in the job settings and deselect "Enable synthetic fulls"...

W3C Publishes Do Not Track Proposal

The W3C has proposed a standard for implementing the Do Not Track mechanism for both users and site owners, wading into what has become a contentious and fractious debate. The proposed standard, known as the Tracking Preference Expression, is designed to give users the ability to tell sites what...

Android Malware, Up 472 Percent, Seeing Fastest Growth Ever

As Android market share has shot up in recent months, so has the volume of malware designed for the mobile platform. There’s been a whopping 472 percent increase in Android malware samples in the last three months alone, according to research from Juniper Networks. While September saw a 28 percen...

Mozilla Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerabily (Windows)

The host is installed with Mozilla firefox/thunderbird and is prone to privilege escalation vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbmozillaprdtsprivescvulnwin.nasl 7029 2017-08-31 11:51:40Z teissa $ Mozilla Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Windows Authors: Madhuri D Copyright:...

CVE-2011-3647

The JSSubScriptLoader in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.24 and Thunderbird before 3.1.6 does not properly handle XPCNativeWrappers during calls to the loadSubScript method in an add-on, which makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges via a crafted web site that leverages certain...

CVE-2011-3647

The JSSubScriptLoader in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.24 and Thunderbird before 3.1.6 does not properly handle XPCNativeWrappers during calls to the loadSubScript method in an add-on, which makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges via a crafted web site that leverages certain...

Anonymous Hackers hack neo-Nazis website & leak personal info of 16,000 Finns

Anonymous Hackers hack neo-Nazis website & leak personal info of 16,000 Finns Anonymous Hackers have successfully hacked the neo-Nazi website and published the database of its 16000 membership application database containing personal data of some applicants from all around the country. The hack w...

How Facebook Ticker exposing your information and behavior without your knowledge

How Facebook Ticker exposing your information and behavior without your knowledge Nelson Novaes Neto , a Brazilian independent Security and Behavior Research have analyze a privacy issue in FacebookTicker that allows any person chasing you without your knowledge or consent . He explain that this ...

X.Org X Server: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background The X Window System is a graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Description vladz reported the following vulnerabilities in the X.Org X server: The X.Org X server follows symbolic links when trying to access the lock file for a X display, showing a predictable...

The Mystery of Duqu

First of all, we feel it necessary to clarify some of the confusion surrounding the files and their names related to this incident. To get a full understanding of the situation you only need to know that we’re talking about just two malicious programs here at a minimum – the main module and a...

Fedora 15 : php-5.3.8-3.fc15 (2011-13446)

Revert isa behavior to php = 5.3.6 and add a new new option allowstring for the new behavior accept string and raise autoload if needed Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatical...

Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey 'loadSubScript()' Security Bypass Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey is prone to a security bypass vulnerability. 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...

CVE-2011-3004

The JSSubScriptLoader in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 6 and SeaMonkey before 2.4 does not properly handle XPCNativeWrappers during calls to the loadSubScript method in an add-on, which makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges via a crafted web site that leverages certain unwrapping...