Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered on Orbic Wonder Orbic/RC555L/RC555L:7.1.2/N2G47H/329100b:user/release-keys devices. Any app co-located on the device can send an intent to factory reset the device programmatically because of com.android.server.MasterClearReceiver. This does not require any user interactio...

Instagram Adds 3 New Security Tools to Make its Platform More Secure

Instagram is growing quickly—and with the second most popular social media network in the world behind just Facebook, the photo-sharing network absolutely dominates when it comes to user interactions. And with great success comes great responsibility—responsibility to keep users' accounts safe,...

Instagram Adds 3 New Security Tools to Make its Platform More Secure

Instagram is growing quickly—and with the second most popular social media network in the world behind just Facebook, the photo-sharing network absolutely dominates when it comes to user interactions. And with great success comes great responsibility—responsibility to keep users' accounts safe,...

Crashing Mobile Apps Capture Screens, Leak Private Data

Several mobile software developer kits SDKs can capture sensitive user data when a mobile app crashes, exposing private data to an outside third party. Researchers at Appthority singled out SDKs offered by AppSee and TestFairy in a report published Monday. They warned that mobile users whose apps...

Huawei Mate 10 Pro Phone FRP Security Bypass Vulnerability

Huawei Mate 10 Pro is a smartphone product of Chinese company Huawei Huawei. The Huawei Mate 10 Pro phone suffers from an FRP security bypass vulnerability, which allows an attacker to bypass the FRP functionality by turning off the boot wizard after connecting the phone with a PC and installing ...

ThreatList: $1.1M is Lost to Cybercrime Every Minute of Every Day

Every 60 seconds, $1.1 million is lost to cyberattacks. That staggering stat comes to us by way of RiskIQ, which compiled proprietary and third-party research to crunch numbers around malicious activity. The resulting report, the appropriately named “Evil Internet Minute,” paints a stark picture ...

An Open-Source Pre and Post Callback-Based Framework for macOS Kernel Monitoring: Kemon

If third-party vendors want to add new features to the macOS kernel, such as antivirus capabilities, ransomware blocking, data breach auditing, behavior monitoring and so on, they usually need the support of the system’s exported interfaces. At present, only two known official interfaces are...

New Ways to Track Internet Browsing

Interesting research on web tracking: "Who Left Open the Cookie Jar? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Third-Party Cookie Policies: Abstract: Nowadays, cookies are the most prominent mechanism to identify and authenticate users on the Internet. Although protected by the Same Origin Policy, popular...

Asset Inventory for Network Perimeter: from Declarations to Active Scanning

In the previous post, I shared some of my thoughts about the good Asset Inventory system. Of course, for me as a Security Specialist, it would be great if IT will provide such magical system. But such an ideal situation is rarely possible. So now let's see how to build an Asset Inventory system...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: mozilla-privacy-badger-2018.8.1-1.fc28

Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-p arty trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites wit hout your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks tha...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: mozilla-privacy-badger-2018.8.1-1.fc27

Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-p arty trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites wit hout your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks tha...

Chaturbate: Stats Token doesn't expire after deactivating account

The hacker found that the stats token, that a user can use to access their own account information, does not expire when an account is deactivated. This was resolved so the view could not be used after deactivation. Application has a feature Authorize your 3rd party stats that provides users a wa...

Android and iOS apps contain multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Android apps, including those pre-installed on some mobile devices, contain multiple vulnerabilities. All of these vulnerabilities were reported by Kryptowire. Vulnerabilities in pre-installed apps were presented at DEF CON 26 and a set of different vulnerabilities were previously...

DEF CON 2018: Telltale URLs Leak PII to Dozens of Third Parties

LAS VEGAS – When we order food online, book a plane ticket or purchase seats for a show, we often get an email confirmation with a handy link that, when clicked, takes us directly to our confirmation, with no need to log back into the site. These pages have our confirmation code, the ability to...

Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Protects Users From Active Cryptojacking Campaigns

Qualys Malware Research Labs recently released the Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Chrome Extension. We have seen enthusiastic adoption from users across the globe in the first week since its release, which has given us enough telemetry data to indicate success in protecting users from popular...

Environment Variable Injection in extension "AWS SDK for PHP" (aws_sdk_php)

The extension uses an old version of the third party library guzzlehttp/guzzle, which is known to be vulnerable against the HTTPOXY attack. Read or for further details...

Black Hat 2018: Patrick Wardle on Breaking and Bypassing MacOS Firewalls

LAS VEGAS – Taking aim at the status-quo of macOS firewalls, researcher Patrick Wardle has made his case for Apple and third-party security firms to beef up their protections. At a session here at Black Hat 2018, Wardle, chief research officer at Digita Security and founder of Mac security compan...

Fortnite Skips Google Play For Android Apps, Irking Security Experts

Security experts are dismayed after the makers of extremely popular video game Fortnite said its Android version of the game will only be available for download via the company’s website, shirking the Google Play store. Last week, Fortnite creator Epic Games confirmed that it will directly...

Node.js third-party modules: Code Injection Vulnerability in dot Package

I would like to report a code injection vulnerability in dot. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary JS code, especially when combined with a prototype pollution attack. Module module name: dot version: 1.1.2 npm page: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dot Module Description Created in search of th...

Node.js third-party modules: Prototype Pollution Vulnerability in mpath Package

I would like to report prototype pollution vulnerability in mpath. It allows an attacker to inject arbitrary properties on Object.prototype. Module module name: mpath version: 0.4.1 npm page: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mpath Module Description G,Set javascript object values using MongoDB-like...