Adrian Lamo, ‘Homeless Hacker’ Who Turned in Chelsea Manning, Dead at 37

Adrian Lamo, the hacker probably best known for breaking into The New York Times's network and for reporting Chelsea Manning's theft of classified documents to the FBI, was found dead in a Kansas apartment on Wednesday. Lamo was widely reviled and criticized for turning in Manning, but that chapt...

Apple Promises Fix for Latest ‘Text Bomb’ Bug As Abuse Spreads

UPDATE Apple said it is working on a fix for the latest text bomb bug that crashes a number of iOS and Mac apps that display specific Telugu language characters. On Monday, it made good on the promise and announced the availability of a patch CVE-2018-4124 for iOS 11.2.6, watchOS 4.2.3, tvOS...

A Single-Character Message Can Crash Any Apple iPhone, iPad Or Mac

Only a single character can crash your iPhone and block access to the Messaging app in iOS as well as popular apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Outlook for iOS, and Gmail. First spotted by Italian Blog Mobile World, a potentially new severe bug affects not only iPhones but also a wide range...

Parat - Python Based Remote Administration Tool (RAT)

Parat is a simple remote administration tool RAT written in python. Also you can read wiki! Change log: Compatible with both python 2 and 3 versionsdont forget that may causes some error.so please share us any errors Do you want to try? Copy and paste on your terminal: git clone...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Snowden Explains Why Telegram Messenger App is Unsafe

By Waqas For years, the ex-NSA National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Snowden Explains Why Telegram Messenger App is Unsafe...

Beware of Cryptocurrency Mining Virus Spreading Through Facebook Messenger

If you receive a video file packed in zip archive sent by someone or your friends on your Facebook messenger — just don't click on it. Researchers from security firm Trend Micro are warning users of a new cryptocurrency mining bot which is spreading through Facebook Messenger and targeting Google...

Telegram Messenger Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Telegram Messenger is a cross-platform instant messaging program whose client is free and open source software, but whose server is proprietary software. A directory traversal vulnerability exists in the saveFile method in MediaController.java in the Telegram Messenger Android application. An...

CVE-2017-17715

The saveFile method in MediaController.java in the Telegram Messenger application before 2017-12-08 for Android allows directory traversal via a pathname obtained in a file-transfer request from a remote peer, as demonstrated by writing to tgnet.dat or tgnet.dat.bak...

Directory traversal

The saveFile method in MediaController.java in the Telegram Messenger application before 2017-12-08 for Android allows directory traversal via a pathname obtained in a file-transfer request from a remote peer, as demonstrated by writing to tgnet.dat or tgnet.dat.bak...

CVE-2017-17715

The saveFile method in MediaController.java in the Telegram Messenger application before 2017-12-08 for Android allows directory traversal via a pathname obtained in a file-transfer request from a remote peer, as demonstrated by writing to tgnet.dat or tgnet.dat.bak...

CVE-2017-17715

The saveFile method in MediaController.java in the Telegram Messenger application before 2017-12-08 for Android allows directory traversal via a pathname obtained in a file-transfer request from a remote peer, as demonstrated by writing to tgnet.dat or tgnet.dat.bak...

CVE-2017-17715

The CVE-2017-17715 entry refers to a directory traversal vulnerability in the Telegram Messenger Android client. The flaw is in the saveFile method of MediaController.java, which, when handling a file-transfer request from a remote peer before 2017-12-08, could be exploited to traverse directorie...

Telegram Messenger for iOS and Android Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Telegram Messenger for iOS and Android is a suite of mobile messaging tools based on the iOS and Android platforms. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Telegram Messenger version 2.6 for iOS and Telegram Messenger version 1.8.2 for Android. The vulnerability can be exploited to obta...

Cisco Webex Messenger Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Webex Messenger could allow an authenticated, local attacker to retrieve user profile information from the affected software, which could lead to the disclosure of confidential information. The vulnerability is due to a lack of input and validation...

Facebook WhatsApp Messenger for Android Vulnerability Local Message Disclosure Vulnerability

Facebook WhatsApp Messenger for Android is a suite of mobile applications from Facebook, Inc. in the United States based on the Android platform that utilize the web to send text messages. The application uses the contact information in the smartphone to find contacts using the program to send...

Denial of service

A denial of service vulnerability in the Android runtime android messenger. Product: Android. Versions: 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0. Android ID: A-37742976...

CVE-2017-0780

CVE-2017-0780 is a DoS in Android's runtime (FrameSequenceDrawable) triggered when processing GIF-based frames in MMS. The root cause is a Null Pointer Exception path: acquireAndValidateBitmap can accept a null or invalid Bitmap from a custom FrameSequenceDrawable.BitmapProvider, leading to an NP...

Dissecting the Chrome Extension Facebook malware

It's been a few days since Kaspersky Lab's blog post about the Multi Platform Facebook malware that was spread through Facebook Messenger. At the same time as Kaspersky Lab were analyzing this threat, a few researchers where doing the same, including Frans Rosén, Security Advisor at Detectify...

New Campaign Uses Facebook Messenger to Distribute Malware

By Waqas A security researcher David Jacoby has revealed that Facebook Messenger This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Campaign Uses Facebook Messenger to Distribute Malware...