Google Begins Blocking Silent Extension Installations with Chrome 25

Google announced late last week it would begin halting the silent installation of extensions on its flagship Chrome browser. In a post on the company’s Chromium Blog, Chrome’s Product Manager Peter Ludwig described the problem that led to the change and two new features present on the latest...

Loctouch for Android vulnerable in handling of implicit intents

Overview Loctouch for Android contains a vulnerability in the handling of implicit intents. Loctouch provided by NHN Japan, is an application that logs location information. Loctouch for Android contains a vulnerability in the handling of implicit intents. Gaku Mochizuki of Mitsui Bussan Secure...

Several Vulnerabilities in extension commerce (commerce)

It has been discovered that the extension commerce commerce is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting. Component Type: Third party extension. This extension is not a part of the TYPO3 default installation. Affected Versions: Version 0.12.7 and below Vulnerability Types: Cross Site Scripting Severity:...

JVN#42625179: Loctouch for Android vulnerable in handling of implicit intents

Loctouch provided by NHN Japan, is an application that logs location information. Loctouch for Android contains a vulnerability in the handling of implicit intents. Impact Location logs that include non-public information may be leaked to a third party through a malicious Android application...

DDoS Attacks on Major US Banks Resurface

UPDATE — The group that claimed responsibility for large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks against major U.S. banks in September and October has carried out another flurry of attacks that are still ongoing today. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters posted its latest threat on Pastebin,...

FTC Launches Investigations into Mobile Apps for Kids

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday said it’s launching “non-public investigations” to determine if mobile application providers are violating federal laws by collecting information on children without their parents’ permission. A report indicates almost 60 percent 235 of the children-centric...

Small Medical Offices Biggest Risk to Patient Data Security, Privacy

Small physician practices, much like their small commercial business counterparts, have been the primary source of health care related data breaches, according to an analysis of breaches from 2009 to October 2012 released today by the Health Information Trust Alliance HITRUST. These smaller medic...

Intrusion detected on two FreeBSD Project app dev servers

The FreeBSD team has announced over the weekend that two machines within the FreeBSD.org cluster have been compromised and have been consequently pulled offline for analysis. Security team said on Saturday. "The affected machines were taken offline for analysis. Additionally, a large portion of t...

FreeBSD Servers Compromised; Third-Party Software Packages Could be Impacted

FreeBSD is warning users of the open source UNIX-like operating system about a compromise of a pair of servers used to build third-party software. The organization said attackers had sufficient access to affect third-party packages distributed by the project and suggests that any software install...

FreeBSD : typo3 -- Multiple vulnerabilities in TYPO3 Core (79818ef9-2d10-11e2-9160-00262d5ed8ee)

Typo Security Team reports : TYPO3 Backend History Module - Due to missing encoding of user input, the history module is susceptible to SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting. A valid backend login is required to exploit this vulnerability. Credits go to Thomas Worm who discovered and reported th...

Security hole allows anyone to hijack your Skype account

It looks like Skype has another big hole in their security. According to reports, a security hole makes Skype accounts vulnerable to hijacking. The security hole allows unauthorized users with knowledge of your Skype-connected email address to change the password on your Skype account, thus gaini...

Twitter Resets More Passwords Than Accounts Hacked

An untold number of Twitter users Thursday received suspicious emails alerting them their passwords had been reset following a loosely defined, third-party hack. The emails are apparently legitimate, though they were sent to more than victims of compromised accounts. “We’re committed to keeping...

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...

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...

Secunia launches Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager 4.0

78% of vulnerabilities are found in third-party programs. Security teams cannot monitor all of them manually or determine which ones are critical to their organization. Secunia, the leading provider of IT security solutions that enables businesses and private individuals to manage and control...

Security Advisory AA-007: Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Sitecom Home Storage Center

Security Advisory AA-007: Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Sitecom Home Storage Center Severity Rating: High Discovery Date: July 29, 2012 Vendor Notification: July 30, 2012 Disclosure Date: September 11, 2012 Vulnerability Type= Arbitrary file upload Impact= Loss of system integrity...

Security Advisory AA-007: Command Injection Vulnerability in Sitecom Home Storage Center

Security Advisory AA-007: Command Injection Vulnerability in Sitecom Home Storage Center Severity Rating: High Discovery Date: July 29, 2012 Vendor Notification: July 30, 2012 Disclosure Date: September 12, 2012 Vulnerability Type= Command injection Impact= System access Severity= Alcyon rates th...

CyanogenMod Fixes Flaw That Logged Users Unlock Codes

CyanogenMod, a popular open source firmware replacement for Android phones, has patched a hole in its code that was locally logging swipe gestures used to unlock phones. The problem, which stemmed from a line of code that was never intended for release, was fixed in an update posted for download ...

Several Vulnerabilities in extension Formhandler (formhandler)

It has been discovered that the extension Formhandler formhandler is vulnerable to SQL-Injection and Cross-Site Scripting. Component Type: Third party extension. This extension is not a part of the TYPO3 default installation. Affected Versions: Version 1.4.0 and below Vulnerability Types: SQL...

Verizon DBIR Analysis: Opportunistic Attacks Crushing Certain Industries

Regardless of the market or industry, the majority of attacks are financially motivated. Even in data-rich environments such as health care, attackers are still after profits and exploit the same weaknesses and transaction processing systems that are vulnerable in other industries such as hotels...