PlayDrone Reveals Secret Keys from Thousands of Play Store Android Apps

Google's Android Mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets have Google's own Play Store that provides its Android users the most visible way to access the world of millions of apps. App developers produce more than thousands of applications each year, but majority of newbie and...

[oss-security] Xen Security Advisory 99 - unexpected pitfall in xenaccess API

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Xen Security Advisory XSA-99 version 2 unexpected pitfall in xenaccess API UPDATES IN VERSION 2 ==================== Public Release. Added note regarding CVE. ISSUE DESCRIPTION ================= A test/example program, for exercising the Xen memaccess...

Removing user from LDAP doesn't clear LDAP group membership

Reproduction steps: 1. Setup generic LDAP user repository RW, with jira-users, jira-developers, jira-administrators groups. 2. Create user for John Smith as [email protected]. 3. Add him to jira-administrators group. 4. Remove user [email protected] John changed the company. 5. Create user for Jake Sunny as...

Removing user from LDAP doesn't clear LDAP group membership

Reproduction steps: 1. Setup generic LDAP user repository RW, with jira-users, jira-developers, jira-administrators groups. 2. Create user for John Smith as [email protected]. 3. Add him to jira-administrators group. 4. Remove user [email protected] John changed the company. 5. Create user for Jake Sunny as...

unexpected pitfall in xenaccess API

ISSUE DESCRIPTION A test/example program, for exercising the Xen memaccess API, does not take all necessary precautions against hostile guest behaviour. As a result, software developers using it as an example or template might have written and deployed vulnerable code. See the patch for technical...

[oss-security] CVE request for commons-beanutils: 'class' property is exposed, potentially leading to RCE

Hi All I have raised this twice with [email protected], on 30 April and June 3. I have received no response either time, therefore I am raising it on oss-security. CVE-2014-0114 describes a well-known issue in Apache Struts 1: "It was found that the Struts 1 ActionForm object allowed access to...

Google Play Store Update Allows Apps to Silently Gain Control of Your Device

Google just made a huge change to the way application permissions work on Android devices which has left a potential door open to malicious app developers and hackers. Google narrows down Android's 145 permissions into 13 broad categories and groups app permissions into 'groups of related...

Crowdsourcing to be Part of Phase Two of TrueCrypt Audit

TrueCrypt may yet get forked, but it won’t come at the hands of the Open Crypto Audit Project OCAP, which has a working plan to move forward with a cryptanalysis of the open source encryption software. OCAP is the brand name for the grassroots movement that arose out of the ashes of the Snowden...

Developers Raise Bounty of $17,600 for First to Root Samsung Galaxy S5

It has been months ago since the release of Samsung’s latest Smartphone, Galaxy S5 and we have seen a portion of International units receive root, but a couple of the carrier variants including the developer edition of Samsung Galaxy S5 for Verizon and At&T hasn’t been in the list, sadly. The...

Bug Bounties Expanding to Individual Developers

Bug bounties once were restricted mainly to large software companies such as Mozilla and Google. But the success of these programs has led many other infrastructure and product companies, including Yahoo, Facebook, Barracuda, PayPal and even Microsoft, to launch their own reward systems. Now, the...

Facebook Introduces Anonymous Login to Limit Third-party App Permissions

We're comfortable in sharing information with our Facebook friends, but it is quite sneaky for Facebook users to offer their Identities and credentials when logging in to third-party apps, they don’t trust. To deal with this issue, the social network giant has plans to improve the way users login...

Basecamp Back Online After DDoS, Extortion

The project management console Basecamp is back online and its developers are in the process of restoring customers’ network access Tuesday after the service was taken down by a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack Monday. The attack started at 8:46 a.m. CST yesterday and flooded the site wi...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: ReviewBoard-1.7.22-2.fc20

Review Board is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: ReviewBoard-1.7.22-1.fc19

Review Board is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process...

China's Keen Team Topples Safari, Flash at Pwn2Own

VANCOUVER – One is the bug hunter, the other the exploit specialist. Fang Jiahong and Liang Chen represented the Keen Team at Pwn2Own on Thursday, starting off the second day of the annual exploit festival with a quick takedown of Apple’s Safari browser. They then wrapped up the contest with a...

Automatic access added to newly added bitbucket account without notificiation

Steps to replicate: Add a new bitbucket account to your JIRA OnDemand instance via the DVCS connector. Click on the cog to the right of your new account and view 'configure automatic access' Result: Automatic access will be set up and membership to the 'developers' group will be granted Expected...

Automatic access added to newly added bitbucket account without notificiation

Steps to replicate: Add a new bitbucket account to your JIRA OnDemand instance via the DVCS connector. Click on the cog to the right of your new account and view 'configure automatic access' Result: Automatic access will be set up and membership to the 'developers' group will be granted Expected...

Automatic access added to newly added bitbucket account without notificiation

Steps to replicate: Add a new bitbucket account to your JIRA OnDemand instance via the DVCS connector. Click on the cog to the right of your new account and view 'configure automatic access' Result: Automatic access will be set up and membership to the 'developers' group will be granted Expected...

Uroburos Rootkit: Most sophisticated 3-year-old Russian Cyber Espionage Campaign

The Continuous Growth of spyware, their existence, and the criminals who produce & spread them are increasing tremendously. It’s difficult to recognize spyware as it is becoming more complex and sophisticated with time, so is spreading most rapidly as an Internet threat. Recently, The security...

[OWASP iGoat] Security learning tool for iOS developers

The OWASP iGoat project is a security learning tool for iOS developers to learn about security weaknesses in iOS -- by breaking things as well as fixing them. iGoat is available ONLY in source code format, and this is the official repository for that code. On the Downloads tab here, you will find...