Apple Launches Bug Bounty with Maximum $200,000 Reward

LAS VEGAS—Apple closed out Black Hat today with a long-awaited announcement that next month it will launch a bug bounty. The Apple Security Bounty will be an invitation-only program, open to two dozen researchers at the outset, said Ivan Krstic, head of security engineering and architecture. The...

The vulnerability of Google Chrome browser allows a malicious actor to trigger a service failure.

The Google Chrome browser contains a vulnerability related to memory reuse after deallocation use-after-free error in the browser/ui/views/speechrecognitionbubbleviews.cc file. Exploiting this vulnerability allows malicious actors to remotely cause system failures or other adverse effects through...

The vulnerability of Google Chrome browser allows a malicious actor to trigger a service failure.

The Google Chrome browser contains a vulnerability related to memory reuse after deallocation use-after-free error in the browser/ui/views/speechrecognitionbubbleviews.cc file. Exploiting this vulnerability allows malicious actors to remotely cause system failures or other adverse effects through...

On xDedic, a Flash Zero Day, Facial Recognition, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including a password issue at Github, the xDedic marketplace, another Flash zero day, and how the poorly the FBI is doing with facial recognition software. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJune172016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Report: FBI Doing Poor Job Securing 411 Million Facial Recognition Photos

Privacy experts are arguing this week the FBI, which maintains a vast – and apparently even larger than expected – treasure trove of facial recognition photos, isn’t doing enough to safeguard the databases, many which contain images of innocent citizens. According to a report released by the...

FBI Wants Biometric Database Exempt From Privacy Rules

Civil liberties and privacy groups are petitioning the U.S. government for more time to fight the FBI’s request to exempt itself from lawsuits related to its warehouse of an estimated 100 million biometric records if it’s found in violation of the federal Privacy Act of 1974. At issue is the...

This App Lets You Find Anyone's Social Profile Just By Taking Their Photo

Is Google or Facebook evil? Forget it! Russian nerds have developed a new Face Recognition technology based app called FindFace, which is a nightmare for privacy lovers and human right advocates. FindFace is a terrifyingly powerful facial recognition app that lets you photograph strangers in a...

Face recognition - Native code usage, SD-card access vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Face recognition published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Facebook's latest feature Alerts You if Someone Impersonates Your Profile

Online harassment has been elevated a step with the advent of popular social networks like Facebook. Cyber stalkers create fake profiles impersonating other Facebook users and start doing activities on their behalf until and unless the owners notice the fake profiles and manually report it to...

Free Open Source Face Recognition Neural Network: OpenFace

OpenFace is a Python and Torch implementation of face recognition with deep neural networks and is based on the CVPR 2015 paper FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering by Florian Schroff, Dmitry Kalenichenko, and James Philbin at Google. Torch allows the network to be...

MyScript Memo v3.0 iOS - (Mail) Persistent Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== MyScript Memo v3.0 iOS - Mail Persistent Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1706 Release Date: ============= 2016-02-10 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 170...

Samsung Galaxy S6 - android.media.process Face Recognition Memory Corruption (MdConvertLine)

Exploit for Android platform in category dos / poc Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=616 The attached file causes memory corruption when iy is scanned by the face recognition library in android.media.process F/libc 4134: Fatal signal 11 SIGSEGV, code 1,...

Samsung Galaxy S6 - android.media.process MdConvertLine Face Recognition Memory Corruption

Samsung Galaxy S6 - android.media.process MdConvertLine Face Recognition Memory Corruption Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=616 The attached file causes memory corruption when iy is scanned by the face recognition library in android.media.process F/libc...

Samsung Galaxy S6 - 'android.media.process' 'MdConvertLine' Face Recognition Memory Corruption

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=616 The attached file causes memory corruption when iy is scanned by the face recognition library in android.media.process F/libc 4134: Fatal signal 11 SIGSEGV, code 1, fault addr 0x33333333333358 in tid 12161 syncThread...

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is a smartphone released by Samsung South Korea. A security vulnerability exists in the media scanning feature of the face recognition library in the android.media.process file in previous versions of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge G925VVRU4B0G9. A remote attacker can exploit...

CVE-2015-7897

The media scanning functionality in the face recognition library in android.media.process in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge before G925VVRU4B0G9 allows remote attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted BMP image file...

Memory corruption

The media scanning functionality in the face recognition library in android.media.process in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge before G925VVRU4B0G9 allows remote attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service memory corruption via a crafted BMP image file...

Samsung Galaxy S6 - android.media.process Face Recognition Memory Corruption

Samsung Galaxy S6 - android.media.process Face Recognition Memory Corruption Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=499 The attached files cause memory corruption when they are scanned by the face recognition library in android.media.process. From faces-art.bm...

Samsung Galaxy S6 - android.media.process Face Recognition Memory Corruption

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=499 The attached files cause memory corruption when they are scanned by the face recognition library in android.media.process. From faces-art.bmp F/libc 11305: Fatal signal 11 SIGSEGV, code 1, fault addr 0x0 in tid 11555...

Android tremble! Black Hat2015 hacker conference to be announced 6 security a threat-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

For phone control and information security of the party, the Black Hat, the world's top hacker conference is certainly not to be missed, each time the General Assembly will burst a lot of interesting things, such as this opening in the United States, held Black Hat 2 0 1 5, the“fresh”security...