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CVE-2013-0931
EMC RSA Authentication Agent 7.1.x before 7.1.2 on Windows does not enforce the Quick PIN Unlock timeout feature, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the passcode requirement for a screensaved session by entering a PIN after timeout expiration...
Samsung Galaxy Note II lock screen bypass vulnerability
iOS was in the news lately for a series of security mishaps, but this time android back in scene. A security flaw discovered by Terence Eden on the Galaxy Note II with Android 4.1.2 that allows hackers to briefly bypass the phone's lock screen without needing a password. By hitting "emergency cal...
ESA-2013-012: RSA® Authentication Agent 7.1.1 for Microsoft Windows® Access Control Vulnerability
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ESA-2013-012: RSA® Authentication Agent 7.1.1 for Microsoft Windows® Access Control Vulnerability EMC Identifier: ESA-2013-012 CVE Identifier: CVE-2013-0931 Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P Affected Products: Product...
RSA Authentication Agent protection bypass
In some cases only PIN is requested insted of full authentication sequence...
Scientific Linux Security Update : openssh on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130221)
Due to the way the pamsshagentauth PAM module was built in Scientific Linux 6, the glibc's error function was called rather than the intended error function in pamsshagentauth to report errors. As these two functions expect different arguments, it was possible for an attacker to cause an...
Belkin Wireless Router - Default WPS PIN Security
Belkin Wireless Router - Default WPS PIN Security source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57128/info Belkin Wireless Router is prone to a security vulnerability that may allow attackers to generate a default WPS PIN. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow attackers to generate the default...
Belkin Wireless Router - Default WPS PIN Security
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57128/info Belkin Wireless Router is prone to a security vulnerability that may allow attackers to generate a default WPS PIN. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow attackers to generate the default WPS PIN. This may lead to other attacks. Belkin...
Twitter Downplays SMS-Spoofing Issue
Twitter officials say that a researcher’s claims that the service is open to an SMS-spoofing vulnerability are not completely accurate, and that Twitter users in the United States are not vulnerable to the attack. Moxie Marlinspike of Twitter’s security team said that the company in August had...
Twitter Resolves SMS Bug (For Some Users)
UPDATE–A day after an independant security researcher disclosed a vulnerability in SMS-enabled Twitter accounts, the social network giant announced it’s fixed the flaw – at least for some users. Those who use a “long code” and/or cannot use a PIN code remain at risk. The update came Tuesday eveni...
Twitter SMS-Spoofing Bug Allows Attackers to Send Tweets From Users' Accounts, Edit Profiles
There is a bug in the way that Twitter handles a feature that enables users to post messages via SMS and the researcher who discovered the bug says that it allows anyone who knows a user’s mobile number to not only tweet from the user’s account but also modify information in the user’s profile. T...
Point-of-Sale Terminals Compromised at 63 Barnes & Noble Locations
UPDATE – America’s largest book retailer, Barnes & Noble, announced this morning it has detected evidence of tampering in 63 PIN-pad devices used in as many stores by criminals trying to steal payment card information. Barnes & Noble claims to have disconnected all the affected devices from servi...
Windows 8 Security flaw : Logon Passwords Stores in Plain Text
Windows 8 is the first operating system from Microsoft to support alternative non-biometric authentication mechanisms such as Picture Password and PIN. A vulnerability discovered by a password security vendor - "Passcape" in Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system that it saves a log on password i...
Cisco CallManager vulnerable to brute force attack
Roberto Suggi Liverani, founder of the OWASP Open Web Application Security Project New Zealand chapter discover a vulnerability in Cisco CallManager AKA Unified Communications Manager. It is a software-based call-processing system developed by Cisco Systems. He described on his blog "During a...
6 Million Virgin Mobile users vulnerable to Hackers
Virgin Mobile customers beware: Your phone number is the key to your personal information. According to independent developer Kevin Burke, who warned Virgin Mobile USA customers about a glaring security hole in the phone company's account login protocol said, "If you are one of the six million...
Chip and PIN payment card system vulnerable to Card cloning
At a cryptography gathering in Leuven, Belgium, on Tuesday, Cambridge University researchers made it known that they do not like what they see in chip and pin systems. The chip and PIN system employed by most European and Asian banks is definitely more secure than the magnetic strip one, but it...
Design/Logic Flaw
The Samsung and HTC onTouchEvent method implementation for Android on the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide, HTC Merge, Sprint EVO Shift 4G, HTC ChaCha, AT&T Status, HTC Desire Z, T-Mobile G2, T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide, and Samsung Galaxy S stores touch coordinates in the dmesg buffer, which allows remot...
The hackerproof password? Tips and advice on password management
Having some security expert tell you that you should be creating strong passwords that are unique per account and change frequently is like your dentist telling you that you should floss morning, night and after consuming any dentally dangerous foods. The majority of us say, "yeah right". The tru...
More than 100000 Wireless Routers have Default Backdoor
A recently reported flaw that allowed an attacker to drastically reduce the number of attempts needed to guess the WPS PIN of a wireless router isn't necessary for some Arcadyan based routers anymore. Last year it was exposed that the WiFi Protected Setup WPS PIN is susceptible to a brute force...
Banking System Vulnerability - 3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran
Banking System Vulnerability - 3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran Iran's Central Bank has announced that the electronic information of 3 million customers of 10 Iranian banks have been compromised. These banks now require their customers to change their ATM pin numbers before they can access...
