Google Details Linux Kernel Defenses, New and Old

Developers with Android’s Security Team peeled back some of the layers on the mobile operating system this week; describing the lengths Google goes to protect the Linux kernel. In a post to Google’s Security Blog, Jeff Vander Stoep clarified several mitigations slated for inclusion in Nougat, the...

Beware! Your iPhone Can Be Hacked Remotely With Just A Message

In Brief Do you own an iPhone? Mac? Or any Apple device? Just one specially-crafted message can expose your personal information, including your authentication credentials stored in your device's memory, to a hacker. The vulnerability is quite similar to the Stagefright vulnerabilities, discovere...

SandJacking Attack Puts iOS Devices At Risk to Rogue Apps

Apple has yet to patch a vulnerability disclosed during last week’s Hack in the Box hacker conference in Amsterdam that allows an attacker with physical access—even on the latest versions of iOS—to swap out legitimate apps with malicious versions undetected on the device. Researcher Chilik Tamir ...

Al-Khaser - Public Malware Techniques Used In The Wild

al-khaser is a PoC malware with good intentions that aimes to stress your anti-malware system. It performs a bunch of nowadays malwares tricks and the goal is to see if you catch them all. Possible uses You are making an anti-debug plugin and you want to check its effectiveness. You want to ensur...

Adversary Resistant Computing Platform: SubgraphOS

Subgraph OS is an adversary resistant computing platform. The main purpose of Subgraph OS is to empower people to communicate, share, and collaborate without fear of surveillance and interference. What this means in practical terms is that users of Subgraph OS can safely perform their day-to-day...

Subgraph OS — Secure Linux Operating System for Non-Technical Users

Information security and privacy are consistently hot topics after Edward Snowden revelations of NSA's global surveillance that brought the world's attention towards data protection and encryption as never before. Moreover, just days after Windows 10's successful launch last summer, we saw variou...

openSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2016-238)

This update to Chromium 48.0.2564.109 fixes the following issues : Security fixes boo965999 : - CVE-2016-1622: Same-origin bypass in Extensions - CVE-2016-1623: Same-origin bypass in DOM - CVE-2016-1624: Buffer overflow in Brotli - CVE-2016-1625: Navigation bypass in Chrome Instant - CVE-2016-162...

Tor Releases Anonymous Instant Messenger. Here's How to Use It

The Tor Project has officially launched the first beta version of Tor Messenger, an open source and Encrypted instant messaging client that works on top of the Tor network. Tor Messenger is designed by keeping both simplicity and privacy in mind. The team claimed that their app encrypts the conte...

iOS sandboxing vulnerabilities increase the enterprise data risk level-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Appthority researchers found a present in the iOS sandboxed application vulnerabilities in the iOS 8.4.1 the following version of the system will be affected, anyone can use this vulnerability to access the System Management Application Configuration. Sandbox vulnerability-QuickSand Due to this...

KLA10585 Multiple vulnerabilities in Google Chrome

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Google Chrome. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass security restrictions, spoof user interface, conduct cross-scripting attack, cause denial of service or execute arbitrary code. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilitie...

Android IMSI-Catcher Detector: AIMSICD

AIMSICD is an app to detect IMSI-Catchers . IMSI-Catchers are false mobile towers base stations acting between the target mobile phones and the real towers of service providers. As such they are considered a Man-In-The-Middle MITM attack. In the USA the IMSI-Catcher technology is known under the...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox regression (USN-2505-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2505-2 advisory. USN-2505-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update removed the deprecated -remote command-line switch that some older software still depends on. This update...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2505-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-2505-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2505-1 advisory. Matthew Noorenberghe discovered that Mozilla domains in the allowlist could make UITour API calls from background tabs. If one of these domains were...

Apple MAC OS X Yosemite Sandbox Bypass Vulnerability

Apple MAC OS X Yosemite is the latest operating system developed by Apple. A design issue in the Apple MAC OS X Yosemite cache sandboxing configuration document allows an attacker to exploit this vulnerability to write to a sandboxed application cache...

pwn4fun Spring 2014 - Safari - Part II

Posted by Ian Beer TL;DR An OS X GPU driver trusted a user-supplied kernel C++ object pointer and called a virtual function. The IOKit registry contained kernel pointers which were used defeat kASLR. A kernel ROP payload ran Calculator.app as root using a convenient kernel API. Overview of part I...

Did the “Man With No Name” Feel Insecure?

Posted by James Forshaw, Taker of Names Sometimes when I'm doing security research I'll come across a bug which surprises me. I discovered just such a bug in the Windows version of Chrome which exposed a little-known security detail in the OS. The bug, CVE-2014-3196 was fixed in M38, so it seemed...

[Sandboxie] Sandbox Your Browser / Software / Programs In Windows

Sandboxie enables you to easily sandbox your browser and other programs, it runs your applications in an isolated abstraction area called a sandbox. Under the supervision of Sandboxie, an application operates normally and at full speed, but can’t effect permanent changes to your computer. Instead...

Adobe Flash Player sandbox for Safari OS X Mavericks

Mac OS X Mavericks may have brought with it iBooks and Maps to the Apple desktop operating system, but for security conscious users, perhaps the thing most worth noting is the addition of sandbox protection for Adobe Flash Player for the Safari browser, announced yesterday by Adobe. “By providing...

Mailbox iPhone app vulnerability executes any Javascript from HTML mail body

Italian Researcher Michele Spagnuolo recently revealed a serious vulnerability in the popular Mailbox iPhone app. Mailbox is a tidy iOS the email app recently purchased by Dropbox, has a pretty wide-open hole that could allow bad actors to hijack your device. The flaw occurs in the latest version...