NSA RETRO Tool Collects Content of Phone Calls

The latest in the slow but steady trickle of leaks dripping out of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reportedly shows that the U.S. spying agency has the capacity to recall entire foreign phone call conversations for as long a month after the fact. The program, according to a Washington Post repor...

CVE-2014-1512

Use-after-free vulnerability in the TypeObject class in the JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering extensive memory consumption while garbage...

CVE-2014-1512

Use-after-free vulnerability in the TypeObject class in the JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering extensive memory consumption while garbage...

Design/Logic Flaw

Use-after-free vulnerability in the TypeObject class in the JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering extensive memory consumption while garbage...

CVE-2014-1512

Use-after-free vulnerability in the TypeObject class in the JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering extensive memory consumption while garbage...

Firefox ESR 24.x < 24.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)

The installed version of Firefox ESR 24.x is prior to 24.4 and is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Memory issues exist that could lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2014-1493, CVE-2014-1494 - A flaw exists in the checkHandshake function due to improper...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2150-1)

Benoit Jacob, Olli Pettay, Jan Varga, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Dan Gohman, Christoph Diehl, Gregor Wagner, Gary Kwong, Luke Wagner, Rob Fletcher and Makoto Kato discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker...

Mozilla: Use-after-free in TypeObject (MFSA 2014-30)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the TypeObject class in the JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering extensive memory consumption while garbage...

CVE-2014-1512

Use-after-free vulnerability in the TypeObject class in the JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering extensive memory consumption while garbage...

Use-after-free in TypeObject — Mozilla

Security research firm VUPEN, via TippingPoint's Pwn2Own contest, reported that memory pressure during Garbage Collection could lead to memory corruption of TypeObjects in the JS engine, resulting in an exploitable use-after-free condition...

The NSA, Snowden and the Internet's Offensive Future

Despite everything that has transpired in the last year, Edward Snowden sounded calm, reflective and in some ways wistful yesterday discussing the fallout and consequences of the multitude of NSA programs and methods he’s revealed. Snowden bemoaned the fact that the NSA specifically and the...

MobileIron Data Collection

Binary data mobileironcollect.nbin...

Privacy Groups Seek to Halt Facebook Acquisition of WhatsApp

The appeal of WhatsApp, the cross-platform mobile messaging app recently acquired by Facebook for a stunning $19 billion price tag, was that it kept to its promise of not collecting user information that would be converted to ad revenue. The acquisition by Facebook, however, likely changes that...

SA-CONTRIB-2014-018 - Webform - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

The Webform module enables you to create forms which can be used for surveys, contact forms or other data collection throughout your site. The module doesn't sufficiently sanitize field label titles when two fields have the same formkey, which can only be managed by carefully crafting the webform...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Debt Collection Notification Email Messages on January 27, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 32586 First Published: 2014 January 27 21:07 GMT Last Updated: 2014 January 29 13:51 GMT Version: 3 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a debt collection notice for the recipient. The text in the email...

Congressmen Call For DNI Clapper's Ouster

A group of six Congressmen have asked President Barack Obama to remove James Clapper as director of national intelligence as a result of his misstatements to Congress about the NSA’s dragnet data-collection programs. The group, led by Rep. Darrell Issa R-Calif., said that Clapper’s role as DNI “i...

Crypto Pioneers Write Letter on NSA Surveillance to Obama

Perhaps the biggest condemnation of President Obama’s address last Friday announcing reforms to the NSA’s surveillance programs was his failure to mention any of the agency’s alleged involvement in subverting cryptography standards and the impact that has had on the trustworthiness of products...

Cisco TelePresence System Software Command Execution Vulnerability

Cisco TelePresence System Software contains a vulnerability in the System Status Collection Daemon SSCD code that could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the root user. Cisco has released software updates that address this...

Obama Orders NSA Bulk Metadata Surveillance Reforms

President Obama today announced reforms to the National Security Agency’s bulk metadata collection program under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, ordering a transition that would end the program as it exists today, and prohibit the government from storing and accessing the data without secret cour...

Metadata Program 'Not Uniquely Valuable'

In a mostly friendly and non-confrontational hearing on Tuesday, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spent a couple of hours talking to members of the White House-appointed NSA review board about the extent of the agency’s surveillance and the panel’s recommendations for reform. The hearing...