Local Root Exploit on Lenovo VIBE Mobile Phones - us

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-15823 Potential Impact: Elevation of Privilege Severity: Medium Scope of Impact: Lenovo specific CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-3748, CVE-2017-3749, CVE-2017-3750 Summary Description: Vulnerabilities have been identified on Lenovo VIBE Mobile Phones that allow the user or ...

It's Now Legal to Jailbreak Smart TV, Smartphone Or Tablet

In our previous article, The Hacker News reported that the EFF had won its battle over the limits that were put on a car's copyrighted software, allowing car owners to fiddle with their car's software. EFF has participated in the rulemaking procedure held by the United States copyright office DMC...

Car Hacking, Mobile Jailbreaking Among DCMA Exemptions Granted

Car hackers and jailbreakers today apparently got a green light from the Librarian of Congress David Mao to tinker away. The Library of Congress’ triennial exemptions to the anti-circumvention rules within the Digital Copyright Millennium Act DCMA were released today, and among the exemptions to...

Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 9.0, 9.0.1 and 9.0.2 Released

The Chinese Pangu jailbreak team has once again surprised everyone by releasing the first untethered jailbreak tool for iOS 9 – iOS 9.0, iOS 9.0.1, and iOS 9.0.2. The untethered jailbreak is a jailbreak where your device don't require any reboot every time it connects to an external device capabl...

Jailbreak iOS 8 And iOS 8.1 Untethered Using 'Pangu' Jailbreak Tool

Good news for iOS 8.1 users! The Chinese jailbreaking team Pangu has released a software tool that allows users to Jailbreak their iPhones, iPads and iPods running the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 8 and iOS 8.1. That was really very quick, as iOS users need to wait quite...

Hurray! Unlocking Your Cell Phone is Officially Legal Again

President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Friday that aims to make it legal for consumers to “unlock” their cell phones in order to change their cell phone service providers without paying for a new phone. The bill is known as the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, which...

[evasi0n7] iOS 7.x Jailbreak

Evasi0n Jailbreaking tools available for Apple iOS 7 users. This jailbreak utility/tool made by Evad3rs team after 3 months of iOS 7 launched. evasi0n is available for Mac and Windows, and is untethered. Here are the requirements posted on the evasi0n website: A computer, running Windows XP...

Apple iOS Default SSH Password

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/ require 'msf/core' require 'net/ssh' class Metasploit3...

Zero-day Smartphone Vulnerability exposes location and User Data

Zero-day Smartphone Vulnerability exposes location and User Data Smartphones are increasingly becoming the preferred device for both personal and professional computing, which has also attracted hackers to increase their focus on creating malware and other security vulnerabilities for these...

Mobile, Android Threats Continued Sharp Growth in 2011

The occurrence of mobile malware increased by 155 percent across all platforms in 2011, and, according to Juniper Network’s 2011 Mobile Threat Report, malware specifically targeting the Android operating system saw its own increase of more than 3,000 percent. Juniper Networks attributes Android’s...

Apple Crash Reports Help Hackers to create a jailbreak exploit

Apple Crash Reports Help Hackers to create a jailbreak exploit iPhone "jailbreaking " has been a hot topic since Apple released its smartphone more than two years ago. According to the Latest report posted by BBC that Thousands of iPhone owners have joined forces with a team of hackers to help th...

Hackers Install Siri on iPhone 4

Over the weekend, a pair of hackers successfully installed Apple’s previously iPhone 4S-exclusive voice assistant service, Siri, onto an iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod Touch. The hack works on jailbroken iOS devices. Steve Troughton-Smith and Grant Paul announced the hack via Twitter late...

Data Encryption, 3.1/3GS

Apple’s decision to add data encryption with the iPhone 3GS was a nod to enterprise customers who wanted to offer iPhones to their employees, but were wary of the lack of security features compared with competing platforms like RIM’s Blackberry. Still, when they finally got around to it – with th...

Apple Internship In Hand, Comex Promises 'No More Jailbreaks'

As the now famous iOS hacker best known as “Comex,” Nicholas Allegra was more than willing to weigh in on the vulnerabilities of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. But now that he has accepted a position as an intern at Apple, Comex said his jailbreaking days are over. In an “ask me anything”...

The Security of the Android Operating System

In this video, Tim Armstrong, a malware researcher at Kaspersky Lab talks with Ryan Naraine about the strengths and weaknesses of the Android operating system. Armstrong looks at strengths and weaknesses of the open-source platform and warns about the risks associated with jailbreaking/rooting...

Accused PS3 Hacker Responds to Sony Suit, Vows to Fight Back

George Hotz, one of the hackers sued this week by Sony in connection with the jailbreaking of the PlayStation 3, has hired a pair of attorneys who say they plan to “vigorously defend the baseless accusations asserted by Sony.” In a statement sent to reporters Friday, two attorneys hired by Hotz s...

The Pros And Cons of Jailbreaking Your Phone

Does jailbreaking your mobile phone make it less secure? Kaspersky Lab Director of Global Research and Analysis Costin Raiu offers his thoughts in this exclusive video Q&A with Threatpost Editor Ryan Naraine. Jailbreaking your iPhone was, at one time, an activity limited to serious hardware hacke...

Manufacturers, Carriers Look to Defend Devices Against Attackers and Users

As mobile phones have gradually morphed into complete computing devices in the last few years with the advent of the iPhone and Android-based phones, mobile phone manufacturers and wireless carriers have been working to create new protection mechanisms to stop attacks against the increasingly...

iPhone Jailbreaking, Greenpois0n and SHAtter Trojans

By Costin Raiu When iPhone jailbreaking was declared legal earlier this year, Apple fans from all around the world rejoiced. Sites such as Jailbreakme.com, which allowed for the simple and straightforward jailbreaking of older iPhones, became very popular. Indeed, the keyword here is “older”...

FreeType: Multiple stack overflows by processing CFF opcodes

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the cffdecoderparsecharstrings function in the CFF Type2 CharStrings interpreter in cff/cffgload.c in FreeType before 2.4.2, as used in Apple iOS before 4.0.2 on the iPhone and iPod touch and before 3.2.2 on the iPad, allow remote attackers to execute...