Advisory: Android SQLite Journal Information Disclosure (CVE-2011-3901)

1 Background ============ Android applications are executed in a sandbox environment, to ensure that no application can access sensitive information held by another, without adequate privileges. For example, The Browser application holds sensitive information such as cookies, cache and history, a...

Multiple COOKPAD applications for Android vulnerable in WebView class

Overview Multiple COOKPAD applications for Android contain a vulnerability in WebView class. Cookpad and Cookpad Noseru provided by COOKPAD Inc. are Android applications to search or post recipes. Cookpad and Cookpad Noseru contain a vulnerability in WebView class. Gaku Mochizuki of Mitsui Bussan...

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...