Apple iOS, tvOS and watchOS CoreText Denial of Service Vulnerability

Apple iOS, tvOS, and watchOS are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices; tvOS is a smart TV operating system; and watchOS is a smart watch operating system. coreText component is a text engine that controls text formatting and layout. CoreText component is a te...

Twitter iOS client information disclosure vulnerability

Twitter iOS client is an iOS-based mobile client program for accessing the Twitter social network and micro blogs. A security vulnerability exists in versions 6.62 and 6.62.1 of the iOS-based Twitter client, which stems from the program failing to validate Twitter's server certificate. A remote...

iPhone Apps With Camera Permissions Can Secretly Take Your Photos Without You Noticing

Are you a proud iPhone owner? If yes, this could freak you up. Trust me! Your iPhone has a serious privacy concern that allows iOS app developers to take your photographs and record your live video using both front and back camera—all without any notification or your consent. This alarming privac...

iPhone apps can access cameras to secretly take photos and record videos

By Waqas There was a time when Apple devices were considered secured This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: iPhone apps can access cameras to secretly take photos and record videos...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 23, 2017

Just like Bugs Bunny wears disguises to avert his enemies, there’s another “wascally” rabbit causing trouble in the form of ransomware. Bad Rabbit is the latest ransomware campaign hitting Eastern European countries with what looks like a variant of the Petya/NotPetya ransomware. Bad Rabbit sprea...

CVE-2017-7116

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. watchOS before 4 is affected. The issue involves the "Wi-Fi" component. It might allow remote attackers to read data from kernel memory locations via crafted Wi-Fi traffic...

CVE-2017-7103

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. watchOS before 4 is affected. The issue involves the "Wi-Fi" component. It might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service memory...

CVE-2017-7114

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. macOS before 10.13 is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. watchOS before 4 is affected. The issue involves the "Kernel" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denia...

CVE-2017-7105

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. watchOS before 4 is affected. The issue involves the "Wi-Fi" component. It might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service memory...

CVE-2017-7112

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. watchOS before 4 is affected. The issue involves the "Wi-Fi" component. It might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service memory...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7102

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. Safari before 11 is affected. iCloud before 7.0 on Windows is affected. iTunes before 12.7 on Windows is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote attackers to...

CVE-2017-7086

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. macOS before 10.13 is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. watchOS before 4 is affected. The issue involves the "libc" component. It allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption via a craft...

Apple iOS Time has an unspecified vulnerability

Apple iOS is an operating system developed by Apple Inc. for mobile devices.Time component is one of the time components. A security vulnerability exists in the Time component of Apple iOS prior to version 11, which arises from the possibility that the program fails to properly handle the use of...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7107

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11 is affected. Safari before 11 is affected. iCloud before 7.0 on Windows is affected. iTunes before 12.7 on Windows is affected. tvOS before 11 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote attackers to...

Apple iOS 10.2 (14C92) - Remote Code Execution

Apple iOS 10.2 14C92 - Remote Code Execution Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1317c3 The exploit achieves R/W access to the host's physical memory. This exploit has been tested on the iPhone 7, iOS 10.2 14C92. To run the exploit against different devices or...

Apple Allows Uber to Use a Powerful Feature that Lets it Record iPhone Screen

If you are an iPhone user and use Uber app, you would be surprised to know that widely popular ride-hailing app can record your screen secretly. Security researcher Will Strafach recently revealed that Apple selectively grants what's known as an "entitlement" Uber a powerful ability to use the...

October 3, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Tom Petty” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 3, 2017 - Headlines Equifax Says Cyber Attack May Have Hit 2.5 Million...

Over The Air - Vol. 2, Pt. 2: Exploiting The Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices

Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project Zero In this blog post we’ll continue our journey towards over-the-air exploitation of the iPhone, by means of Wi-Fi communication alone. This part of the research will focus on the firmware running on Broadcom’s Wi-Fi SoC present on the iPhone 7. We’ll begin by...

Judge: FBI Can Keep iPhone Crack and Price Secret

The FBI can keep secret the controversial details about how much it paid and who it hired to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone 5C in 2016. In a judgment .PDF released late Saturday, Judge Tanya Chutkan for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, sided with the FBI’s reasoning tha...

Judge: FBI Doesn't Have to Reveal How It Unlocked iPhone Used by San Bernardino Terrorist

Remember the infamous encryption fight between the FBI and Apple for unlocking an iPhone belonging to terrorist Syed Farook behind the San Bernardino 2015 mass shooting that killed 14 people? The same Apple vs. FBI case where Apple refused to help feds access data on the locked iPhone and, later...