X11 Session -- SDDM allows unauthorised unlocking

MITRE reports: An issue was discovered in SDDM through 0.17.0. If configured with ReuseSession=true, the password is not checked for users with an already existing session. Any user with access to the system D-Bus can therefore unlock any graphical session. The default configuration of SDDM on...

Greyshift Sells Phone Unlocking Services

Here's another company that claims to unlock phones for a price...

Apple in the InfoSec Spotlight, as GitHub Falls Prey to Amplified DDoS Attack

Apple has been all over InfoSec news in the past week or so, along with Spectre / Meltdown developments, a tax season scam alert from the feds, and an apparent solution to the Winter Olympics' hack whodunit. In addition, researchers warned about a new trend of using Memcached servers to...

Phone-Cracking Firm Found a Way to Unlock Any iPhone Model

Remember the infamous encryption fight between Apple and the FBI for unlocking an iPhone belonging to a terrorist behind the San Bernardino mass shooting that took place two years ago? After Apple refused to help the feds access data on the locked iPhone, the FBI eventually paid over a million...

CVE-2017-17704

A door-unlocking issue was discovered on Software House iStar Ultra devices through 6.5.2.20569 when used in conjunction with the IP-ACM Ethernet Door Module. The communications between the IP-ACM and the iStar Ultra is encrypted using a fixed AES key and IV. Each message is encrypted in CBC mode...

Design/Logic Flaw

A door-unlocking issue was discovered on Software House iStar Ultra devices through 6.5.2.20569 when used in conjunction with the IP-ACM Ethernet Door Module. The communications between the IP-ACM and the iStar Ultra is encrypted using a fixed AES key and IV. Each message is encrypted in CBC mode...

CVE-2017-17704

The CVE-2017-17704 entry concerns Software House iStar Ultra devices (up to 6.5.2.20569) used with the IP-ACM Ethernet Door Module. The vulnerability arises from CBC-mode encryption that reuses a fixed IV and key across messages, with no strong authentication of messages. This enables replay of w...

CVE-2017-17704

A door-unlocking issue was discovered on Software House iStar Ultra devices through 6.5.2.20569 when used in conjunction with the IP-ACM Ethernet Door Module. The communications between the IP-ACM and the iStar Ultra is encrypted using a fixed AES key and IV. Each message is encrypted in CBC mode...

CVE-2017-17435

An issue was discovered in the software on Vaultek Gun Safe VT20i products, aka BlueSteal. An attacker can remotely unlock any safe in this product line without a valid PIN code. Even though the phone application requires it and there is a field to supply the PIN code in an authorization request,...

CVE-2017-17435

CVE-2017-17435 (Vaultek VT20i / BlueSteal) : A vulnerability in Vaultek Gun Safe VT20i products allows remote unlocking without a valid PIN. An attacker who observes the BLE advertisement can write a BLE characteristic to enable notifications, craft a getAuthor packet that returns a temporary key...

CVE-2017-17435

An issue was discovered in the software on Vaultek Gun Safe VT20i products, aka BlueSteal. An attacker can remotely unlock any safe in this product line without a valid PIN code. Even though the phone application requires it and there is a field to supply the PIN code in an authorization request,...

Amazon Promises Fix to Stop Key Service Hack

Researchers at Rhino Security Labs identified a flaw in Amazon’s Key delivery service and Cloud Cam security camera that allows a rogue courier to tamper with the camera and knock it offline, making it appear no one is entering home, when that’s not the case. Amazon Key service allows homeowners ...

Bitlocker Device Policy

Windows 10 Enterprise includes a disk encryption feature called BitLocker, which provides extra file and system protections against unauthorized access of a lost or stolen device. For more protection, you can use BitLocker with Trusted Platform Module TPM chips, version 1.2 or later. A TPM chip...

Hacker unlocks vehicle for family who’d lost keys months ago

By Waqas Our world is full of good and bad people and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker unlocks vehicle for family whod lost keys months ago...

New Ransomware Variant "Nyetya" Compromises Systems Worldwide

Note: This blog post discusses active research by Talos into a new threat. This information should be considered preliminary and will be updated as research continues.Update 2017-07-06 12:30 EDT: Updated to explain the modified DoublePulsar backdoor.Since the SamSam attacks that targeted US...

Subaru car software vulnerability analysis—never a failure of token-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Not long ago, one from California car, information security researcher Aaron Guzman, in Australia, held a computer security conference to introduce a black into the Subaru car of the method. In his own 2017 Subaru WRX STI was found in a surprising number of software vulnerabilities, through these...

CVE-2015-9020

In all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the unlocking of memory...

CVE-2015-9020

In all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the unlocking of memory...

CVE-2017-5626

CVE-2017-5626 affects OnePlus OnePlus 3/3T with OxygenOS before 4.0.2. The vulnerability hinges on two hidden fastboot oem commands (4F500301 and 4F500302) that bypass the bootloader lock, ignore OEM Unlocking, and do not require user confirmation or data erasure. Exploitation was demonstrated by...

The vulnerability of the iOS operating system allows a hacker to bypass the code access procedure and unlock the device.

The vulnerability of the SpringBoard component in the iOS operating system is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious individual to bypass the code access procedure and unlock the device using uncertain vectors...