What to expect for this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Last year during holidays, US online sales surpassed $122 billion. This represented a 12 percent increase over the previous year. But beyond the overall growth, what's more interesting is that sales at physical stores dropped by 10 percent, the result of ongoing consumer comfort with and adoption...

Allwinner 3.4 Legacy Kernel - Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

Exploit for Android platform in category local exploits This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require "msf/core" class MetasploitModule "Allwinner 3.4 Legacy Kernel Local Privilege Escalation", "Description" ...

Allwinner 3.4 Legacy Kernel Local Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require "msf/core" class MetasploitModule "Allwinner 3.4 Legacy Kernel Local Privilege Escalation", "Description" = %q This module attempts to exploit a debug backdoor...

Allwinner 3.4 Legacy Kernel Local Privilege Escalation

Exploit for hardware platform in category remote exploits This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require "msf/core" class MetasploitModule "Allwinner 3.4 Legacy Kernel Local Privilege Escalation", "Description...

Warning! Over 900 Million Android Phones Vulnerable to New 'QuadRooter' Attack

Android has Fallen! Yet another set of Android security vulnerabilities has been discovered in Qualcomm chipsets that affect more than 900 Million Android smartphones and tablets worldwide. What's even worse: Most of those affected Android devices will probably never be patched. Dubbed...

Amazon for Tablets - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView SSL handling enabled vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Amazon for Tablets published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Sky News Arabia for Tablets - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Sky News Arabia for Tablets published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Amazon Backtracks On Encryption Removal

Amazon reversed course on its unpopular decision to remove encryption from its Fire OS 5 tablets. Over the weekend, Amazon said, customers’ device-level encryption support will return this spring. The move comes after Amazon customers and privacy activists expressed outrage over the company’s...

Google released the Android key on the media process and the root vulnerability patch-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Google for Nexus smartphones and tablets, released a batch of new security patches,solved by a vicious e-mail, web pages and multimedia invasion the Android device's vulnerability. Google in the security Bulletin said: the firmware update is applied the radio update promotion to support Nexus...

The sword refers to the Android and iOS system DoubleDirect middle attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

A security researcher found a new man in the middle attack technique, it targets mostly run of the Android system and iOS system of smartphone and tablets. This is called DoubleDirect of art belonging to the middleman（MITM attack. An attacker can use this technique to put the victim to visit...

CVE-2014-6939

The CVE-2014-6939 entry concerns the Android app Sketch W Friends FREE -Tablets (package air.com.xlabz.SketchWFriendsFree), version 5.0.0. The vulnerability is that the application does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which enables man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and ...

CVE-2014-6939: Undefined Security Weakness

The Sketch W Friends FREE -Tablets aka air.com.xlabz.SketchWFriendsFree application 5.0.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

College students concerned about information security

Universities and colleges have been under significant pressure to upgrade their technology both in and out of the classroom. For instance, many organizations turn to mobility as a way to engage students and facilitate learning campus-wide. While much of the discussion is around issues such as the...

Samsung's new OS Tizen 2.0 source code released

The Tizen 2.0 source code and SDK has officially been released. Tizen is a Linux-based open-source software platform backed by Intel and Samsung Electronics, that is designed for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and in-car systems and it's designed to run apps written using web technologies...

Samsung's new OS Tizen 2.0 source code released

The Tizen 2.0 source code and SDK has officially been released. Tizen is a Linux-based open-source software platform backed by Intel and Samsung Electronics, that is designed for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and in-car systems and it’s designed to run apps written using web technologies...

CentOS Update for gtk2 CESA-2013:0135 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for gtk2 CESA-2013:0135 centos5

Check for the Version of gtk2 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for gtk2 CESA-2013:0135 centos5 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gtk2 on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130108)

An integer overflow flaw was found in the X BitMap XBM image file loader in GTK+. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XBM image file that, when opened in an application linked against GTK+ such as Nautilus, would cause the application to crash. CVE-2012-2370 This update also fixes...

gtk2 security and bug fix update

2.10.4-29 - Improve patch to parse CUPS user lpoptions file to avoid crashes on s390 and ia64 Resolves: 603809 2.10.4-28 - Fix the filechooser not opening selected file when location entry is empty Resolves: 518483 2.10.4-27 - Fix integer overflow in GdkPixbuf's XBM image file format loader...

gtk2 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0135 Updated gtk2 packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVS...