Plug-in content may monitor keystrokes on unrelated pages – Opera Security Advisories

Plug-ins may use operating system features to detect key presses when the plug-in is focused. If the plug-in does not detect its own focused state correctly, it can detect key presses when other pages are focused, allowing the plug-in content to detect key presses intended for pages from other...

Android information leak

---------------------------- Vulnerability Description ---------------------------- We found that any android application can read all world-readable files in the "/proc" directory without specifying any permissions in their manifest files. This can leak sensitive information. For example, if the...

Typing Test

Researchers at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon have been working on software that doesn’t analyze what passwords are typed, but rather how words are typed. Researchers Ravel Jabbour, Wes Mastri and Ali El-Hajj have found that examining the speed and rhythm of the user’s keystrokes...

Capture: HTTP JavaScript Keylogger

This modules runs a web server that demonstrates keystroke logging through JavaScript. The DEMO option can be set to enable a page that demonstrates this technique. Future improvements will allow for a configurable template to be used with this module. To use this module with an existing web page...

OpenJDK: mutable static AWTKeyStroke.ctor (AWT, 7019773)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7, 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, and 1.4.233 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality, integrity, and...

CVE-2011-3663

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 8.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 8.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.6 allow remote attackers to capture keystrokes entered on a web page, even when JavaScript is disabled, by using SVG animation accessKey events within that web page...

CVE-2011-3663

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 8.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 8.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.6 allow remote attackers to capture keystrokes entered on a web page, even when JavaScript is disabled, by using SVG animation accessKey events within that web page...

CVE-2011-3663

CVE-2011-3663 affects Mozilla Firefox 4.x–8.0, Thunderbird 5.0–8.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.6. It allows remote attackers to capture keystrokes entered on a web page via SVG animation accessKey events, even when JavaScript is disabled. The description in the provided documents states the affected ...

CVE-2011-3663: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 8.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 8.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.6 allow remote attackers to capture keystrokes entered on a web page, even when JavaScript is disabled, by using SVG animation accessKey events within that web page...

SeaMonkey < 2.6.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The installed version of SeaMonkey is earlier than 2.6.0. Such versions are potentially affected by the following security issues : - An out-of-bounds memory access error exists in the 'SVG' implementation and can be triggered when 'SVG' elements are removed during a 'DOMAttrModified' event...

CVE-2011-3663

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 8.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 8.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.6 allow remote attackers to capture keystrokes entered on a web page, even when JavaScript is disabled, by using SVG animation accessKey events within that web page...

Firefox < 9.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The installed version of Firefox is earlier than 9.0 and thus, is potentially affected by the following security issues : - An out-of-bounds memory access error exists in the 'SVG' implementation and can be triggered when 'SVG' elements are removed during a 'DOMAttrModified' event handler...

Voodoo Carrier IQ detector application released for Android

Voodoo Carrier IQ detector application released forAndroid An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it. A new...

Voodoo Carrier IQ detector application released for Android

Voodoo Carrier IQ detector application released for Android An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it. A new...

Sen. Franken Demands Answers From Carrier IQ on Mobile Tracking

The fallout from the controversy surrounding the presence of Carrier IQ’s software on millions of mobile devices on several different platforms has now reached Washington. Sen. Al Franken on Thursday sent a letter to the company, demanding answers to a series of questions about the software and i...

Your Android Phone is Spying On You, Use custom ROM To Protect your Privacy

Your Android Phone is Spying On You, Use custom ROM To Protect your Privacy In this digital age, privacy is more important than ever. Just because you "don't have anything to hide," does not mean that you shouldn't value your privacy or fight for it when companies do things like this, especially...

Your Android Phone is Spying On You, Use custom ROM To Protect your Privacy

Your Android Phone is Spying On You, Use custom ROM To Protect your Privacy In this digital age, privacy is more important than ever. Just because you "don't have anything to hide," does not mean that you shouldn't value your privacy or fight for it when companies do things like this, especially...

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes What if a hacker could log every key you typed on your PC by placing a cellphone nearby? US researchers have shown how this is possible using any smartphone available today. At a conference in Chicago on Thursday, a group of computer...

New Research Shows Possibility of Using an iPhone as a Keylogger

Researchers from MIT and Georgia Tech have developed a new technique that enables them to use the accelerometer in an iPhone or other smartphone to capture keystrokes from a nearby PC and decipher the typed words with about 80 percent accuracy. The tactic, while quite complicated, could be used t...

CVE-2011-0260: Undefined Security Weakness

The CoreProcesses component in Apple Mac OS X 10.7 before 10.7.2 does not prevent a system window from receiving keystrokes in the locked-screen state, which might allow physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by typing into this window...