Bluetooth Vulnerabilities

A bunch of Bluetooth vulnerabilities are being reported, some pretty nasty. BlueBorne concerns us because of the medium by which it operates. Unlike the majority of attacks today, which rely on the internet, a BlueBorne attack spreads through the air. This works similarly to the two less extensiv...

The IoT Attack Vector “BlueBorne” Exposes Almost Every Connected Device (BlueBorne)

General Overview Armis Labs revealed a new attack vector endangering major mobile, desktop, and IoT operating systems, including Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux, and the devices using them. The new vector is dubbed “BlueBorne”, as it spread through the air airborne and attacks devices via...

Wireless 'BlueBorne' Attacks Target Billions of Bluetooth Devices

Researchers disclosed a bevy of Bluetooth vulnerabilities Tuesday that threaten billions of devices from Android and Apple smartphones to millions of printers, smart TVs and IoT devices that use the short-range wireless protocol. Worse, according to researchers at IoT security firm Armis that fou...

The Segway miniPRO balance of the car vulnerability research-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

Segway miniPRO Electric balance car presence of a critical security vulnerability, a malicious attacker could exploit the vulnerability may completely control the balance of the car. IOActive latest study found that Segway miniPRO Electric balance of the car in the presence of a critical security...

Vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X operating system, which allow attackers to increase their privileges

The multiple vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth subsystem of the Mac OS X operating system are caused by buffer overflows. Exploiting these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to increase their privileges using XPC messages...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2013-200)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the tg3readvpd function in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted firmware that specifies a long string in the...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1256-1)

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities...