New Chrome Extension Helps Combat Keyboard Biometrics

Two security researchers released a new Chrome extension this week that thwarts attempts to profile users based on a biometric. Researchers Per Thorsheim and Paul Moore collaborated on KeyboardPrivacy, an add-on that injects random delays between presses on a keyboard, Moore said. Those delays, t...

Car Hacking Gets the Attention of Detroit and Washington

Car hacking is a relatively new phenomenon, but it is evolving at a frighteningly quick pace. While just a year or two ago security researchers were still trying to work out exactly how the internal electronics and communications gear in vehicles works, now a pair of researchers has discovered a...

This Unbreakable Encryption Could Save the Internet

The Awareness to encrypt your private data, chat conversations as well as communication is booming like never before that soon the world will mark some day as the International Encryption Day. This may or may not be possible in future, but Toshiba is all set to create a next level of encryption...

How Google Is Tracking Your Movie and Event Activities

No doubt, You must be aware that Google tracks you, but what you probably did not realize is how precisely and till what extent it tracks you. Well, Google knows which movies I watched where, when, at what time and with how many of my friends, and knows it so well — even my eyebrows raised slight...

WhatsApp Ranked Worst at Protecting Your Privacy and Data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released its annual report card of tech companies for 2015 based upon how much they keep your personal data secure from government snoops. And the Worst Companies Award goes to… 1. At&T 2. WhatsApp 3. Verizon Yes, you heard right! WhatsApp is one of the thre...

This MicroSD Card Has Entire Secure Computer Inside It

As Millions of Hackers, Spammers and Scammers are after your sensitive online data, you can't really expect your passwords to stay secure forever, even if you are using long passwords. Most of us might be worried about losing our passwords as we keep signing up for online services. However, Googl...

The vulnerability of the OpenSUSE operating system allows malicious actors to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the XFree86-doc package of the openSUSE operating system can lead to violations of privacy, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely...

The vulnerability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system allows a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.8.2 package in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system can lead to violations of privacy, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely...

Whisper: Insecure Local Data Storage : Application stores data using a binary sqlite database

Android provides several options for developers to save persistent application data. The local DB should store data depending on whether the data should be private to your application or accessible to other applications and users. In any case, sensible data always have to be encrypted to avoid...

Uber Announces Breach of 'Partner' Information

The enormously popular alternative taxi service, Uber, admitted late Friday that an unauthorized third party gained access to the company’s database, stealing driver but not customer information in the process. In a statement, Uber claims there was a “one-time access” of its databases, spilling t...

Is It Possible to Track Smartphone Location By Monitoring Battery Usage?

Data leaks through power consumption? Don’t be surprised because security researchers have discovered a way to track your every move by looking at your Android smartphone's consumption of the battery power,even if you have GPS access unable. Researchers at Stanford University and Israeli Defense...

40,000 UnProtected MongoDB Databases Found on the Internet

Nearly 40,000 organisations running MongoDB, a NoSQL high performance and cross-platform document-oriented database, are found to be unprotected and vulnerable to hackers. Three students from University of Saarland in Germany at the Centre for IT Security – Kai Greshake, Eric Petryka and Jens...

CNIL CookieViz Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

CNIL CookieViz suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities. CNIL CookieViz XSS + SQL injection leading to user pwnage Product link: https://github.com/LaboCNIL/CookieViz CVE references CVE-2014-8351, CVE-2014-8352 TL;DR ----- Since October 2014, the French National...

CNIL CookieViz Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection

CNIL CookieViz XSS + SQL injection leading to user pwnage Product link: https://github.com/LaboCNIL/CookieViz CVE references CVE-2014-8351, CVE-2014-8352 TL;DR ----- Since October 2014, the French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty "CNIL" is performing some controls upon "tracing...

CVE-2014-7802

The Top Roller Coasters Europe 2 aka com.appaapps.top10tallesteuropeanrollercoasters2 application @7F050001 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

Avira Vulnerability Puts Users' Online Backup Data At Risk

A popular Anti-virus software Avira that provides free security software to its customers with Secure Backup service is vulnerable to a critical web application vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take over users’ account, putting millions of its users’ account at risk. Avira is very...

2014 Google Transparency Report Requests for Data Up Again

Against a backdrop of new surveillance programs being uncovered in New Zealand and allegations of the NSA and GCHQ’s penetration of Deutsche Telekom in Germany, Google yesterday published its biannual Transparency Report for the first half of 2014. Google’s numbers reflect not only a continually...

Documents in Long-Running Yahoo FISC Challenge Case Published

During a long-running secret dispute between Yahoo and government officials over the constitutionality of orders from the federal government to turn over data belonging to Yahoo users, the company was facing fines of $250,000 for refusing to comply with the order. The revelation is contained in a...

CVE-2014-0351

Fortinet FortiOS versions affected: FortiOS before 4.3.16 and 5.x before 5.0.8. The FortiManager service allows anonymous cipher suites, enabling a man‑in‑the‑middle to read or tamper traffic. According to FG-IR-14-006, this vulnerability (CVE-2014-0351) can also impact FortiManager communication...

Embedded Device Security, BadUSB, Car Hacking at Black Hat

LAS VEGAS — At the risk of diving headfirst into the Internet of Things fray, embedded device security emerged as a shiny new penny during last week’s Black Hat and DEF CON festivities. Firmware is the new hacker black, and everything from USB sticks, to home routers, to automobiles is in play fo...