New Rules Require FBI to Get Warrant for Spying With ‘Stingrays’ Cell Phone Trackers

Remember StingRays? The controversial cell phone spying tool, known as "Stingrays" or "IMSI catchers," has been used by authorities to track criminal suspects most of the times without obtaining court orders. But now, the Federal law agencies will have to be more transparent about their use of...

Hacking Air-Gapped Computer With A Simple Cell Phone

Wanna Hack an extremely secure Computer? You do not need sophisticated techniques or equipment to do so. To hack an Air-Gapped computer – All you need is a cell phone; even old-fashioned, dumb phones from the past decade will work. Yes, Hacking Air-Gapped Computers is possible using a basic low-e...

freexl -- integer overflow

Stefan Cornelius reports: There's an integer overflow in the allocatecells function when trying to allocate the memory for worksheet with specially crafted row/column dimensions. This can be exploited to cause a heap memory corruption. The most likely outcome of this is a crash when trying to...

Google's Project to Offer Free Superfast Wi-Fi Internet to the World has Begun

Imagine a city with Wi-Fi hotspot. Now imagine that it is free as well. This won't be just an imagination for long as Google has unveiled its new plan to bring Free, Superfast Wi-Fi to cities around the world. Sidewalk Labs, a Google-owned company that focuses on improving city living through...

Android IMSI-Catcher Detector: AIMSICD

AIMSICD is an app to detect IMSI-Catchers . IMSI-Catchers are false mobile towers base stations acting between the target mobile phones and the real towers of service providers. As such they are considered a Man-In-The-Middle MITM attack. In the USA the IMSI-Catcher technology is known under the...

Local Police Listening Your Cell-Phone Without a Warrant

By now, everyone knows that the major federal agencies and big organisations like FBI, NSA and CIA are spying on you under their massive global surveillance programmes. But here's the Kicker: Your local police might be spying on your activities, too. According to the recent details published by t...

Fake Cell Phone Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls

A notable number of cell phone towers around the United States are rogue that, according to latest report, could spoof legitimate towers and intercept calls. The research carried out by ESD America, a defense and law enforcement technology firm based in Las Vegas, shows that a rogue cell phone...

Directory traversal

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in crs.exe in the Cell Request Service in HP Data Protector allow remote attackers to create arbitrary files via an opcode-1091 request, or create or delete arbitrary files via an opcode-305 request. NOTE: the vendor reportedly asserts that this behavi...

CVE-2014-5160

HP Data Protector’s Cell Request Service crs.exe is affected by two directory traversal vulnerabilities (opcode 1091 and 305). The flaws allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to write or delete arbitrary files, with potential code execution in the service context. Affected component is crs.exe ...

CVE-2014-5117

Tor before 0.2.4.23 and 0.2.5 before 0.2.5.6-alpha maintains a circuit after an inbound RELAYEARLY cell is received by a client, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct traffic-confirmation attacks by using the pattern of RELAY and RELAYEARLY cells as a means of communicating...

Cisco Small Cell Command Execution Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the DHCP client implementation of Cisco Small Cell products could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute commands and possibly take full control of the affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper parsing of crafted DHCP messages. An attacker could...

CVE-2014-3307

The DHCP client implementation in Universal Small Cell firmware on Cisco Small Cell products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted DHCP messages, aka Bug ID CSCup47513...

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The DHCP client implementation in Universal Small Cell firmware on Cisco Small Cell products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted DHCP messages, aka Bug ID CSCup47513...

CVE-2014-3307

The DHCP client implementation in Universal Small Cell firmware on Cisco Small Cell products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted DHCP messages, aka Bug ID CSCup47513...

CVE-2014-3307

CVE-2014-3307 affects Cisco Small Cell firmware: the DHCP client has improper parsing of crafted DHCP messages, enabling an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute commands and potentially take full control of the affected device. Cisco’s advisory notes that updates are available to remedia...

Microsoft Excel Merge Cell Record Pointer Code Execution (MS10-080) - Ver2 (CVE-2010-3237)

Microsoft Excel is a popular spreadsheet application. A remote attacker could exploit this issue via a malformed Excel file. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow execution of arbitrary code on a target system. A memory corruption vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft...

Verizon Releases First Transparency Report, Says Government Requests INcreasing

After months of public calls from privacy advocates and security experts, Verizon on Wednesday released its first transparency report, revealing that it received more than 164,000 subpoenas and between 1,000 and 2,000 National Security Letters in 2013. The report, which covers Verizon’s landline,...

EFF Argues For Search Warrant Requirement to Get Cell Location Data

With each day bringing new information about the way that intelligence agencies and law enforcement are tracking the activities and movements of U.S. citizens, the issue of when these organizations can legally obtain such data has become a major one. Now, a case that seemingly has little connecti...

HP Data Protector Cell Request Service Buffer Overflow

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'HP Data Protector Cell Request Servic...

NSA Director Alexander Confirms Cell Location Pilot Program

In between pleas to end the government shutdown that has upwards of 70 percent of the intelligence community furloughed until further notice, NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper spent a significant amount of time before a Senate Judiciary Committe...