Android Play Market 3.9.16 with a Built-In Malware Scanner

AndroidPolice reports that Google is actively working on a built-in malware scanner for the Play Store. A new version of the Play Store app has been released and it is starting to roll out to Android owners. Google Play Store 3.9.16 includes the ability to remove apps from the All Apps list. Ther...

Mozilla Adds Click-to-Play Plugin Security Feature to Firefox Beta

Attackers have been going after vulnerabilities in browser plugins and extensions for years now, as they know that users are slow about updating these components. Even if users have the browser set to update automatically, the third-party components are a separate issue and need to be patched on...

Flawed EMV Chip-and-PIN Protocol Paves Way To Fraudulent ATM and POS Transactions

A flaw in the EMV protocol which lays out the rules for chip-and-PIN card transactions at ATMs and point-of-sale terminals could enable persistent attackers to carry out bogus card transactions. Five Cambridge UK University researchers released a paper today with the gory details. Foremost among...

New OpFake Android Malware Entices Users With Opera Mini Browser

There is a new variant of the OpFake mobile malware making the rounds, and this version comes bundled with a version of the legitimate Opera Mini mobile browser. The malware targets Android phones and steals money from victims by sending SMS messages without the user’s knowledge to premium-rate...

More Malware Using a Remote Payload Discovered on Google Play

Symantec is warning of new malware masquerading as two apps on Google Play that claimed up to 100,000 victims before the Trojan was removed. Both “Super Mario Bros.” and “GTA 3 Moscow City” racked up 50,000 to 100,000 downloads after being posted June 24 on Google Play. “What is most interesting...

Fraudulent Apps and Fake AV Found on Google Play

Researchers from the security firm AegisLab discovered more than 15 fake antivirus and free SMS applications on Google’s recently rebranded content market place, Google Play. The applications are redirecting users to a third party site run by the app’s developer. AegisLab researchers could not sa...

Race condition

Race condition in partmgr.sys in Windows Partition Manager in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 Gold and SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes multiple simultaneous Plug and Play PnP Configuration Manager...

CVE-2012-0178

CVE-2012-0178 affects Windows Partition Manager (partmgr.sys) and stems from a race condition in handling device-relations requests. A crafted application that issues multiple simultaneous Plug and Play (PnP) Configuration Manager calls could allow local users to gain kernel-mode privileges on Wi...

Fake Instagram App Could Cost Unsuspecting Android Users

Malware writers are taking advantage of the popularity of the Instagram photo application to distribute a form of malware that can send background SMS texts from Android devices. Instead of downloading the app from Android’s marketplace, Google Play, some users are being duped into downloading a...

Malicious Android Apps Target Users in Japan

Cybercriminals targeted Android users in Japan with a number of malware-laced Android apps designed to mimic and masquerade as popular games, according to researchers at Symantec. Symantec said it has detected 29 such applications originating from seven developer accounts. Common coding...

Android Video Malware found in Japanese Google Play Store

Android Video Malware found in Japanese Google Play Store A new Trojan has been found, and removed, from the Google Play/Android Market, McAfee reported on Friday afternoon. The post says applications carrying the Trojan promise, and in some cases deliver, trailers for upcoming video games or ani...

Legacy Native Malware in Angry Birds Space to pwn your Android !

Legacy Native Malware in Angry Birds Space to pwn your Android A new malware threatens phones and tablets running Google's OS by hiding inside a copy of the popular game. Researchers at the mobile security firm Lookout identified the reworked malware as Legacy Native LeNa, which poses as a...

Phony Temple Run Game For Android Plays On Android-iOS App Gap

Scammers are using the super-popular Temple Run game for iOS as bait to lure Android users into installing a phony version of the game on their phones. The incident comes amid reports of an explosion in traffic to mobile Web pages and application stores. Researchers at Trend Micro wrote on Monday...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: maniadrive-1.2-32.fc16.1

ManiaDrive is an arcade car game on acrobatic tracks, with a quick and nerv ous gameplay tracks almost never exceed one minute. Features: Complex car physics, Challenging "story mode", LAN and Internet mode, Live scores, Track editor, Dedicated server with HTTP interface and More than 30 blocks...

rtsp-methods NSE Script

Determines which methods are supported by the RTSP real time streaming protocol server. Script Arguments rtsp-methods.path the path to query, defaults to "" which queries the server itself, rather than a specific url. Example Usage nmap -p 554 --script rtsp-methods Script Output PORT STATE SERVIC...

KMPlayer '.kpl' File 'Title' Field Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

KMPlayer is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 ifdescription...

KMPlayer '.kpl' File 'Title' Field Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

This host is installed with KMPlayer and is prone to buffer overflow vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbkmplayerkplfilebofvuln.nasl 5367 2017-02-20 14:16:52Z cfi $ KMPlayer '.kpl' File 'Title' Field Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Authors: Madhuri D Copyright: Copyright c 2011...

Fedora 14 : widelands-0-0.24.build16.fc14 (2011-6124)

Rebase to new upstream release build16 - Besides various enhancements this also fixes an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability, which could be exploited when connecting to malicious servers for internet play! Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block...

USBsploit v0.5 BETA Version Out !

"USBsploit is a PoC to generate Reverse TCP backdoors, malicious PDF or LNK files. But also running Autorun|play infections and dumping all USB files remotely on multiple targets at the same time, a set of extensions to dump can be specified. All EXE, PDF and LNK on the USB targets can also be...

Fedora Update for banshee FEDORA-2010-16907

Check for the Version of banshee OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for banshee FEDORA-2010-16907 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...