Multiple Microsoft Azure IoT SDKs CVE-2018-8119 Man in the Middle Spoofing Vulnerability

Description Multiple Microsoft Azure IoT SDKs are prone to a security vulnerability that may allow attackers to conduct spoofing attacks. A man-in-the-middle attacker can exploit this issue to conduct spoofing attacks and perform unauthorized actions; other attacks are also possible. Technologies...

Millions of Apps Leak Private User Data Via Leaky Ad SDKs

SAN FRANCISCO – Millions of apps leak personal identifiable information such as name, age, income and possibly even phone numbers and email addresses. At fault are app developers who do not protect ad-targeting data transmitted to third-party advertisers. “The scale of what we first thought was...

Leaking ads

When we use popular apps with good ratings from official app stores we assume they are safe. This is partially true – usually these apps have been developed with security in mind and have been reviewed by the app store's security team. However, we found that because of third-party SDKs many popul...

COPPA Compliance

Interesting research: "'Won't Somebody Think of the Children?' Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale": Abstract: We present a scalable dynamic analysis framework that allows for the automatic evaluation of the privacy behaviors of Android apps. We use our system to analyze mobile apps' compliance...

CVE-2017-17428

Cavium Nitrox SSL, Nitrox V SSL, and TurboSSL software development kits SDKs allow remote attackers to decrypt TLS ciphertext data by leveraging a Bleichenbacher RSA padding oracle, aka a ROBOT attack...

CVE-2017-17428

CVE-2017-17428 is a Bleichenbacher-style RSA padding oracle (ROBOT) vulnerability that can allow an attacker to decrypt TLS data by exploiting RSA PKCS#1. Cisco advisories and CERT CERT/SEC records indicate multiple Cisco products (and other vendors’ TLS stacks) were affected and issued updates. ...

CVE-2017-10051

Vulnerability in the Oracle Outside In Technology component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Outside In Filters. The supported version that is affected is 8.5.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with access to the physical communication segment attached t...

Yet more mobile adware found in Google Play

Finding an adware variant that made its way past the Google Play store is out of the ordinary. So when two adware variants slip by in one week, we take notice. Last week, we added two new Ad SDKs to our growing list of adware detections—Adware.Solid and Adware.Cootek. Both Ad SDKs were found in a...

Facebook Delegated Account Recovery SDKs Published for Java, Ruby Apps

Facebook’s Delegated Account Recovery, a protocol that allows applications to delegate account recovery permission to third-party applications, entered its beta phase today with the release of SDKs and additional support for new platforms. The feature has been running on a trial basis since late...

Buffer overflow

Vulnerability in the Oracle Outside In Technology component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Outside In Filters. Supported versions that are affected are 8.5.2 and 8.5.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle...

CVE-2017-3295

Vulnerability in the Oracle Outside In Technology component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Outside In Filters . Supported versions that are affected are 8.5.2 and 8.5.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.2.1 Security Update - SDKs and RPMs

Updated packages that provide Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.2.1, fixed several bugs, and added various enhancements that are now available from the Customer Portal. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring Syste...

Abandoned Mobile C&C Servers Present Opportunity to Attackers

DENVER—When developers build mobile apps, they’re not only coding functionality, but they’re also dragging in third-party software development kits SDKs for ads, analytics and lots of things in between. A big function of SDKs is to communicate with a central server to receive instructions and...

Millions of IoT Devices Using Same Hard-Coded CRYPTO Keys

Millions of embedded devices, including home routers, modems, IP cameras, VoIP phones, are shareing the same hard-coded SSH Secure Shell cryptographic keys or HTTPS HTTP Secure server certificates that expose them to various types of malicious attacks. A new analysis by IT security consultancy SE...

Embedded devices use non-unique X.509 certificates and SSH host keys

Overview Embedded devices use non-unique X.509 certificates and SSH host keys that can be leveraged in impersonation, man-in-the-middle, or passive decryption attacks. Description CWE-321: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key - Multiple CVEsResearch by Stefan Viehbཬk of SEC Consult has found that...

Android 'Serialization' Vulnerability Affects 55 Percent of Devices

Google has patched a severe Android vulnerability that researchers at IBM said impacts more than 55 percent of devices. As with most Android vulnerabilities, users are reliant on handset makers and carriers to push patches downstream to devices, something they’ve not always been diligent about. I...

Apple's Developer Center Offline for 32 Hours; Compromised ?

It's been over a day now since Apple's online Dev Center went offline, and latest message can be seen in the screenshot, which explains that the current maintenance has took a lot longer than they expected. "We apologize that maintenance is taking longer than expected. If your program membership...

Amazon Joins Authentication Game

As attackers continue to target large databases of passwords and users grow wearier by the day of creating new accounts and login credentials on each site they visit, the larger Web players are positioning themselves as not just social networking or retail hubs, but also as authentication...