Business LaLa Call App for Android fails to verify SSL server certificates

Overview Business LaLa Call App for Android provided by K-Opticom Corporation fails to verify SSL server certificates. Yuto Iso of NTT Security Japan KK reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership. Impact A...

Why WhatsApp's 'Backdoor' Isn't a Backdoor

Accusations that WhatsApp has a backdoor intended for eavesdropping on user messages is being loudly rebuked by Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Open Whisper Systems, the company that developed the underlying encryption technology for the platform. Dismissal of the published claims by The Guardian are...

Nextcloud: HTTP-Basic Authentication on logs.nextcloud.com

Greetings, While visiting https://logs.nextcloud.com/ , I noticed that this server use HTTP-Basic Authentication. F152730 POC : ------ GET https://logs.nextcloud.com/ HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:50.0 Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0 Accept:...

CVE-2016-9885

An issue was discovered in Pivotal GemFire for PCF 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.5 and 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.1. The gfsh Geode Shell endpoint, used by operators and application developers to connect to their cluster, is unauthenticated and publicly accessible. Because HTTPS communications are...

CVE-2016-9885

The CVE-2016-9885 issue affects Pivotal GemFire for PCF (1.6.x < 1.6.5 and 1.7.x

Apple Delays App Transport Security Deadline

Apple backtracked on its plan to enforce a year-end deadline that would of required developers to move apps to an HTTPS-only model in an effort to thwart eavesdropping on insecure, plaintext HTTP connections. On Wednesday Apple said a requirement for developers to adopt App Transport Security wou...

Flash Player Bug An Eavesdropper's Delight

Adobe yesterday patched a not-so-sweet 16 Flash Player vulnerabilities, including a zero day under attack. While not much is known about the targeted attacks using the Flash Player bug, or its victims, details have surfaced on another patched flaw that is a potential privacy nightmare...

Slack: Eavesdropping on private Slack calls

A vulnerability exists in Slack's call functionality that allows a team member to eavesdrop on private ongoing Slack calls by inviting themselves into the conversation without the permission from either participant. By doing so they can eavesdrop on co-workers' private conversations as well as...

Design/Logic Flaw

The mDNIe system service on Samsung Mobile S7 devices with M6.0 software does not properly restrict setmDNIeScreenCurtain API calls, enabling attackers to control a device's screen. This can be exploited via a crafted application to eavesdrop after phone shutdown or record a conversation. The...

CVE-2016-9567: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The mDNIe system service on Samsung Mobile S7 devices with M6.0 software does not properly restrict setmDNIeScreenCurtain API calls, enabling attackers to control a device's screen. This can be exploited via a crafted application to eavesdrop after phone shutdown or record a conversation. The...

MGASA-2016-0392 Updated libssh2 packages fix security vulnerability

Andreas Schneider reported that libssh2 passes the number of bytes to a function that expects number of bits during the SSHv2 handshake when libssh2 is to get a suitable value for 'group order' in the Diffie-Hellman negotiation. This weakens significantly the handshake security, potentially...

Updated libssh2 packages fix security vulnerability

Andreas Schneider reported that libssh2 passes the number of bytes to a function that expects number of bits during the SSHv2 handshake when libssh2 is to get a suitable value for 'group order' in the Diffie-Hellman negotiation. This weakens significantly the handshake security, potentially...

Huawei OceanStor 5600 Product Hardcoded SSH Key Vulnerability

Huawei OceanStor 5600 is a storage product from Huawei China. The Huawei OceanStor 5600 product suffers from a hard-coded SSH key vulnerability. The SSH protocol is used for encrypted communication between the nodes of the device, and since the SSH public and private keys are stored in hard-coded...

Skyping And Typing Threatens Privacy

Multitasking while on a work-related Skype call may be good for productivity, but perhaps not so much for privacy. Typing while using Skype or over other Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP services presents an opportunity for an attacker to record the conversation, separate out the emanations from...

Multiple Vulnerabilities Identified in 'Utterly Broken' BHU Routers

Researchers have identified a router so fraught with vulnerabilities and so “utterly broken” that it can be exploited to do pretty much anything. An attacker could bypass its authentication, peruse sensitive information stored in the router’s system logs and even use the device to execute OS...

CVE-2016-2379

The Mxit protocol uses weak encryption when encrypting user passwords, which might allow attackers to 1 decrypt hashed passwords by leveraging knowledge of client registration codes or 2 gain login access by eavesdropping on login messages and re-using the hashed passwords...

KeySniffer Vulnerability Opens Wireless Keyboards to Snooping

Wireless keyboards made by eight different companies suffer from a vulnerability that can allow attackers to eavesdrop on keystrokes from up to 250 feet away, researchers warned Tuesday. If exploited, the vulnerability, dubbed KeySniffer, could let an attacker glean passwords, credit card numbers...

Jetstar App for iOS fails to verify SSL server certificates

Overview Jetstar App for iOS provided by Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd. fails to verify SSL server certificates. Yuta TESHIMA of Cyber Defense Institute, Inc. reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership. Impact A...

105 BANK App fails to verify SSL server certificates

Overview 105 BANK App provided by THE HYAKUGO BANK, LTD. is a mobile app for internet banking. 105 BANK App fails to verify SSL server certificates. Yuji Tounai of NTT Com Security Japan KK reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Ear...

Cybozu KUNAI App Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability

Cybozu KUNAI is a set of Cybozu's licensed software applications for quick access to Cybozu's licensed software. A security vulnerability exists in Cybozu KUNAI, which is caused by the program failing to validate SSL server certificates. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to conduct a...