Google Adds Malware Scanner to Jelly Bean 4.2

Google has been taking some steps to address the problem of malware on the Android platform in recent months, introducing the Bouncer antimalware system and some better anti-exploit technologies in Jelly Bean, the most recent version of the operating system. Now, the company is implementing some...

Russian Underground Cybercrime market offering sophisticated services

Security firm Trend Micro recent analyses the Russian crimeware markets and has found that malware tools and services range from one-time packages which cost just pennies to sophisticated packages and services which cost purchasers thousands of dollars per month. If you want to buy a botnet it wi...

Android, Symbian Malware on the Rise

Yes. You read that headline correctly. F-Secure is talking about the beleaguered and nearly defunct Symbian operating system, upon which Nokia halted nearly all development in February before announcing that it had been put in maintenance mode in September. Despite a nearly 63 percent drop in...

Android Smishing Vulnerability Found in Android Open Source Project Firmware

A vulnerability discovered in the Android Open Source Project enables malicious applications to send SMS messages without user permission across all recent Android platforms. While no exploits are active in the wild, one could be built that could be at the center of various SMS phishing, or...

Android Smishing Vulnerability, an intelligent exploitation by Malicious Apps

Your android device allows you to connect with anyone at anytime, if they are available. Mobile-enhanced shopping and banking sites gives you freedom to buy anything - anywhere. You have millions of applications, that you can install to pimp up your device. But same applications can exploit your...

Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Security Improvements overview

Google is bringing a host of new features to its Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system designed to increase productivity, creativity and peace of mind and some very promising security improvements including: client side malware protection, Security Enhanced Linux, and always-on VPN. Most...

CVE-2012-3745

Off-by-one error in Telephony in Apple iOS before 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and connectivity outage via a crafted user-data header in an SMS message...

CVE-2012-3744

Telephony in Apple iOS before 6 uses an SMS message's return address as the displayed sender address, which allows remote attackers to spoof text communication via a message in which the return address does not match the originating address...

Design/Logic Flaw

Telephony in Apple iOS before 6 uses an SMS message's return address as the displayed sender address, which allows remote attackers to spoof text communication via a message in which the return address does not match the originating address...

Buffer overflow

Off-by-one error in Telephony in Apple iOS before 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and connectivity outage via a crafted user-data header in an SMS message...

CVE-2012-3744

Telephony in Apple iOS before 6 uses an SMS message's return address as the displayed sender address, which allows remote attackers to spoof text communication via a message in which the return address does not match the originating address...

CVE-2012-3745

CVE-2012-3745 affects iOS before 6, in Telephony. Off-by-one error in the handling of SMS user-data headers can allow a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service via a crafted SMS, potentially causing a buffer overflow and connectivity outage. Connected documentation references the same CVE ...

CVE-2012-3745

Off-by-one error in Telephony in Apple iOS before 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and connectivity outage via a crafted user-data header in an SMS message...

CVE-2012-3744

CVE-2012-3744 is an iOS Telephony vulnerability where an SMS message may spoof the sender by the message’s return address being displayed as the sender. Connected Apple security documentation confirms this CVE and indicates the issue was addressed in iOS 6 via Apple’s update, so the remediation i...

PT-2012-4985

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple iOS versions prior to 6 Description The issue is caused by an off-by-one error in the Telephony component, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a buffer overflow and connectivity outage. This can be achiev...

PT-2012-4984

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple iOS versions prior to 6 Description The issue allows remote attackers to spoof text communication by using an SMS message's return address as the displayed sender address, even if the return address does not match the originating address...

CVE-2012-3745: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Off-by-one error in Telephony in Apple iOS before 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and connectivity outage via a crafted user-data header in an SMS message...

CVE-2012-3744: Undefined Security Weakness

Telephony in Apple iOS before 6 uses an SMS message's return address as the displayed sender address, which allows remote attackers to spoof text communication via a message in which the return address does not match the originating address...

Al Jazeera SMS service Hacked, Fake messages spread by Hackers

Al-Jazeera says hackers have targeted the Qatar-based TV satellite channel for the second time in a week, sending out false news reports on its mobile sms service. Al Jazeera confirm the hack in a tweet,"We'd like to inform our subscribers that Aljazeera sms sevice is being compromised by pirates...

Report: Toll Fraud Emerges as Android's Number One Threat

Mobile malware continues to run rampant, thanks to a growing glut of toll fraud malware – apps that have been engineered to bill its victims through premium SMS services. The malware type eclipsed spyware this year as the largest application-based threat according to mobile security firm Lookout...