WhatsApp launches Desktop Software for Windows and Mac Users

The most popular messaging app WhatsApp now has a fully functional desktop app – both for Mac as well as Windows platform. Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging software has been a mobile-only messaging platform forever, but from Tuesday, the company is offering you its desktop application for both...

The vulnerability of Oracle WebLogic Server application servers allows attackers to compromise the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of information.

The vulnerability of the Oracle WebLogic Server application server is related to errors in the code. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to compromise the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of information by manipulating the Java Messaging Service...

Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.x < 10.6.1 Management Console Multiple Vulnerabilities (SYM16-005)

According to its self-reported version number, the Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG running on the remote host is 10.x prior to 10.6.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the SMG management console due to AD password information...

Brazil blocks WhatsApp for 72-Hours — Here's Why

In Brief For the second time in past five months, a Brazil court ordered local telecommunications companies to block the popular messaging app WhatsApp for 72 hours, afterFacebook-owned WhatsApp company refused to hand over information requested in a drug trafficking investigation. The WhatsApp's...

Oracle WebLogic Server Java Object Deserialization RCE (April 2016 CPU)

The remote Oracle WebLogic Server is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability in the Java Messaging Service subcomponent in the readExternal function due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a crafted object payload, t...

​DARPA Wants To Build Ultra Secure Messaging App for US Military

Just last month, DARPA launched a project dubbed "Improv," inviting hackers to transform simple household appliances into deadly weapons. Now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is finding someone in the private sector to develop a hacker-proof "secure messaging and transaction platfor...

CVE-2016-2204

The management console on Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance devices before 10.6.1 allows local users to obtain root-shell access via crafted terminal-window input...

CVE-2016-2204

The management console on Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance devices before 10.6.1 allows local users to obtain root-shell access via crafted terminal-window input...

CVE-2016-2203

The management console on Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance devices before 10.6.1 allows local users to discover an encrypted AD password by leveraging certain read privileges...

Code injection

The management console on Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance devices before 10.6.1 allows local users to discover an encrypted AD password by leveraging certain read privileges...

Input validation

The management console on Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance devices before 10.6.1 allows local users to obtain root-shell access via crafted terminal-window input...

CVE-2016-2204

The management console on Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance devices before 10.6.1 allows local users to obtain root-shell access via crafted terminal-window input...

CVE-2016-2203

CVE-2016-2203 affects Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) Appliance prior to 10.6.1. The management console stores or exposes an encrypted AD password in a way that allows a local attacker with read privileges to recover the LDAP credentials. Impact: local disclosure of AD password with high confide...

CVE-2016-2204

Consolidated details for CVE-2016-2204 (and related CVE-2016-2203) in Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) Appliance: The SMG 10.x management console before 10.6.1 is affected by local privilege escalation. Specifically, CVE-2016-2204 allows a local attacker to gain a root shell in the console by man...

CVE-2016-2203

The management console on Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG Appliance devices before 10.6.1 allows local users to discover an encrypted AD password by leveraging certain read privileges...

More than 1 million People now access Facebook Over Tor Network

In Brief Facebook has hit another Milestone: More than 1 MILLION people, or you can say privacy conscious, are accessing Facebook over TOR. Facebook proudly announced today that, this month, for the first time, the people connected to the anonymous version of Facebook that's accessible only throu...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: springframework-amqp-1.3.9-4.fc22

The Spring AMQP project applies core Spring concepts to the development of AMQP-based messaging solutions. It provides a "template" as a high-level abstraction for sending and receiving messages. It also provides support for Message driven POJOs with a "listener container". These libraries...

Oracle WebLogic Server Multiple Vulnerabilities (April 2016 CPU)

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Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Fusion Middleware WebLogic Server Component (CNVD-2016-02481)

Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Fusion Middleware is a set of Oracle's business innovation platform for enterprise and cloud environments, of which Oracle WebLogic Server is an application server component for both cloud and traditional environments. An unspecified vulnerability exists in the Jav...

Symantec Messaging Gateway Multiple Vulnerabilities (SYM16-005)

Symantec Messaging Gateway is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...