High-Severity SHAREit App Flaws Open Files for the Taking

Two high-severity flaws in the SHAREit Android app allow an attacker to bypass the file transfer application’s device authentication mechanism – and ultimately download content and arbitrary files from the victim’s device, along with a raft of data such as Facebook tokens and cookies. SHAREit is ...

Data Exposed in OXO, Amazon and MongoDB Leaks

2019 has so far been making good on security experts’ predictions that there will be no ebb in data exposures for the new year: In the first half of January, several data breaches and leaks have already come to light, including three notable incidents at well-known firms in just the past week. Ov...

Skype Glitch Allowed Android Authentication Bypass

A Skype vulnerability could have allowed hackers to bypass authentication methods and access personal data on an Android device – simply by answering a Skype call to that device. The glitch, which was disclosed by security researcher Florian Kunushevci last week, was patched earlier in December b...

Twitter Discloses Suspected State-Sponsored Attack After Minor Data Breach

Twitter has been hit with a minor data breach incident that the social networking site believes linked to a suspected state-sponsored attack. In a blog post published on Monday, Twitter revealed that while investigating a vulnerability affecting one of its support forms, the company discovered...

Facebook Flaw Exposes Private Photos for 6.8M Users

Facebook on Friday disclosed a bug in its platform that it said enabled third-party apps to access unpublished photos of 6.8 million users. Facebook stores copies of photo drafts, so if someone uploads the photo but doesn’t finish posting it, the photo will still be stored in the platform’s...

#OTTuesday: iTV on Live Streaming the World Cup

Imagine you're iTV. One of the UK's biggest commercial broadcasters. You have the rights for the World Cup and England has made the semi-finals. The whole country is watching. How do you make sure you're meeting the gold standard of delivering a glitch-free, "TV-like experience" over the internet...

Gmail Glitch Offers Stealthy Trick for Phishing Attacks

A strange glitch in Gmail can be exploited to place emails into a person’s “Sent” folder — even if that person never sent them. Researchers who discovered the bug worry that it gives phishers and scammers another avenue to trick unsuspecting users into clicking on malicious links or opening rogue...

Connected Wristwatch Allows Hackers to Stalk, Spy On Children

Wristwatches with tracking capabilities have gained popularity over the years as an easy way for parents to keep tabs on their children. But a newly-discovered hole in a popular Misafes watch opens up these tracking capabilities to bad actors, which could ultimately threaten the physical safety o...

Apple iOS 11.x & 12.x - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Apple iOS 11.x & 12.x - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2161 View Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9VMidADJcc Release Date: ============= 2018-10-26 Vulnerability Laboratory ID...

Apple iOS 11.x & 12.x - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Apple iOS 11.x & 12.x - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2161 View Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9VMidADJcc Release Date: ============= 2018-10-25 Vulnerability Laboratory ID...

CSS Attack Causes iOS, macOS Devices to Crash

A newly-revealed proof-of-concept attack can cause iOS devices to crash or restart with a mere 15 lines of code, a researcher disclosed over the weekend. On Saturday, researcher Sabri Haddouche, a security researcher at Wire, tweeted the source code of the proof-of-concept PoC attack that he said...

Samsung Investigates Claims of Spontaneous Texting of Images to Contacts

Samsung says it isn’t seeing any software or hardware issues after a slew of Samsung phone users reported that their devices are randomly sending camera roll photos to their contacts without permission. Users took to Reddit and Samsung’s official forums over the past week to complain that their...

RAMpage Attack Explained—Exploiting RowHammer On Android Again!

A team of security researchers has discovered a new set of techniques that could allow hackers to bypass all kind of present mitigations put in place to prevent DMA-based Rowhammer attacks against Android devices. Dubbed RAMpage, the new technique CVE-2018-9442 could re-enable an unprivileged...

Facebook Software Bug Made Some Private Posts Public: 14 Million Affected

A Facebook software bug in May switched the “suggested audience” for posts to “public” for 14 millions of users. The glitch meant Facebook users who though they were sharing content with just friends or small groups actually made their posts available to the general public. The incident is the...

Auth0 Glitch Allows Attackers to Launch Phishing Attacks

UPDATE Researchers are warning of a glitch in the Auth0 identity-as-a-service offering, which could allow bad actors to spoof a legitimate website and collect sensitive information from visitors. Researchers at Imperva on Tuesday found that the subdomain names of Auth0 are susceptible to security...

GLitch: New 'Rowhammer' Attack Can Remotely Hijack Android Phones

For the very first time, security researchers have discovered an effective way to exploit a four-year-old hacking technique called Rowhammer to hijack an Android phone remotely. Dubbed GLitch, the proof-of-concept technique is a new addition to the Rowhammer attack series which leverages embedded...

Twitter Urges Users to Change Passwords Due to Glitch

Twitter said Thursday that a glitch caused account passwords to be stored in plain text on an internal log, sending users across the platform scrambling to change their passwords. The social media company said that it found and has fixed the glitch, and its investigation shows no indication of a...

Integrated GPUs may allow side-channel and rowhammer attacks using WebGL ("Glitch")

Overview Some platforms with integrated GPUs, such as smartphones, may allow both side-channel and rowhammer attacks via WebGL, which may allow a remote attacker to compromise the browser on an affected platform. An attack technique that leverages these vulnerabilities is called "GLitch."...

FreeBSD : mbed TLS (PolarSSL) -- multiple vulnerabilities (d8382a69-4728-11e8-ba83-0011d823eebd)

Simon Butcher reports : - Defend against Bellcore glitch attacks by verifying the results of RSA private key operations. - Fix implementation of the truncated HMAC extension. The previous implementation allowed an offline 2^80 brute-force attack on the HMAC key of a single, uninterrupted connecti...

mbed TLS (PolarSSL) -- multiple vulnerabilities

Simon Butcher reports: Defend against Bellcore glitch attacks by verifying the results of RSA private key operations. Fix implementation of the truncated HMAC extension. The previous implementation allowed an offline 2^80 brute force attack on the HMAC key of a single, uninterrupted connection wi...