Galapagos Browser vulnerable in the WebView class

Overview Galapagos Browser is a web browser for Android devices. Galapagos Browser contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Gaku Mochizuki of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2081

Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 does not consider "don't send" attributes during hub registration, which allows remote hubs to obtain sensitive site information by reading form data...

Mozilla Delays Third-Party Cookie Patch in Firefox

Mozilla has tapped the brakes on its plans to block third-party cookies by default in the Firefox browser. Test versions of Firefox 22, scheduled for a June release, were supposed to include a patch that blocked third-party cookie drops by default. However, Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich said yesterday...

Firefox 21 Launches with 3 critical fixes and new Social Integrations

Mozilla has launched Firefox 21 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, adding a number of improvements, namely to the browser's Social API. "Today, we are adding multiple new social providers Cliqz, Mixi and msnNOW to Firefox," wrote Mozilla in a blog post today. The browser first added Facebook integratio...

Firefox 21 Update Patches 8 Vulnerabilities, 3 Critical

Mozilla fixed eight vulnerabilities, three critical, in the 21st build of its flagship Firefox browser yesterday. One of the fixes remedies an Address Sanitizer memory corruption flaw MFSA 2013-48 that could’ve allowed remote code execution. The other two critical flaws could’ve also led to...

Firefox 21 Launches with 3 critical fixes and new Social Integrations

Mozilla has launched Firefox 21 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, adding a number of improvements, namely to the browser's Social API. "Today, we are adding multiple new social providers Cliqz, Mixi and msnNOW to Firefox," wrote Mozilla in a blog post today. The browser first added Facebook integratio...

How To: Chrome Browser Privacy Settings

youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY9hbsfEbaw The Web browser is the primary portal through which the vast majority of connected users access and interact with the Internet. Each browser has its own security and privacy settings and those settings have an enormous impact on the nature of the...

CPOs Challenged with Meeting Privacy Expectations and Maintaining Full User Experience

SAN FRANCISCO – People who interact with online services have mounting privacy expectations that run in parallel with their need for a full experience with the functionality central to those services. But can users have their privacy cake and eat it too? That’s the challenging question facing...

dhcp security and bug fix update

12:4.1.1-34.P1.0.1.el6 - Added oracle-errwarn-message.patch 12:4.1.1-34.P1 - Reducing the expiration time for an IPv6 lease may cause the server to crash CVE-2012-3955, 858130 12:4.1.1-33.P1 - Use getifaddrs for interface discovery code on Linux 803540 - dhclient-script: do not backup&restore...

FTC Endorses New Privacy Guidelines, Do Not Track for Mobile Apps, Devices

Hoping to ramp up privacy on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the Federal Trade Commission FTC has released a series of suggestions to help app developers, advertising networks and device companies better protect their users online. As it’s done over the last two years with browser...

Google Implements Do Not Track in Chrome 23

Nearly two years after other browser vendors implemented it, Google on Tuesday finally released a version of Chrome that supports the Do Not Track functionality that helps users prevent Web sites from following their movements around the Web. Google’s move to include the technology is a response ...

Chrome 23 Released, 14 vulnerabilities patched

Google today released Chrome version 23 to the Stable Channel. 23.0.1271.64 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. Update includes patch for 12 vulnerabilities in the Windows version and two vulnerabilities in Mac OS X version. Chrome 23 is the support of the Do Not Track DNT protocol, number...

ManageEngine OpStor availability730.do days Parameter XSS

The remote ManageEngine OpStor install is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability. The application does not properly sanitize the 'days' parameter on the 'availability730.do' script. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into requesting a maliciously crafted URL...

Calling Foul on the Political Football That is Do Not Track

It looks like it’s time for a do-over for DNT. The oft-maligned specification has become—like many other standards efforts before it—a political football. Parties with interests on both sides of the issue have their own agendas, cannot agree on semantics and ignore, in this case, what should be t...

First Signs of Google's Do Not Track Feature Begin to Surface on Chrome

Google Chrome is indeed getting a Do Not Track DNT feature according to source code published in the developer’s release of the browser at the end of last week. The feature should clear Google’s dev and beta channels before making its way into the next stable build of the browser before the end o...

Apache Blocks IE 10 Do Not Track Privacy Setting

The co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server Project is under fire for a patch that instructs the world’s most popular Web server to ignore the Do Not Track privacy setting enabled by default in Internet Explorer 10. Do Not Track is a specification under consideration by the W3C and under development...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-3420

Multiple memory leaks in Performance Co-Pilot PCP before 3.6.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption or daemon crash via a large number of PDUs with 1 a crafted context number to the DoFetch function in pmcd/src/dofetch.c or 2 a negative type value to the pmGetPDU...

Adobe Flash Player 11.3 Font Parsing Code Execution

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 "Adobe Flash Player 11.3 Font Parsing...

Google Settles With FTC Over Tracking Cookies, Pays $22.5M Fine

Google has agreed to pay a $22.5 million fine to the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that the company set tracking cookies on the machines of Safari users, after saying that it would not use such tracking measures or serve targeted ads to the users. The FTC investigation began after a...

Senate Committee to Discuss Do Not Track at Key Hearing

The dram surrounding the Do Not Track specification and its implementation by browser manufacturers is set to continue on Thursday when the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to discuss whether the proposed specification is strong enough or has been weakened by the digital advertising...