Cellebrite Now Says It Can Unlock Any iPhone for Cops

In a strangely public product announcement, the phone-cracking firm revealed a powerful new device...

Authentication flaw

The Xiaomi M365 scooter 2019-02-12 before 1.5.1 allows spoofing of "suddenly accelerate" commands. This occurs because Bluetooth Low Energy commands have no server-side authentication check. Other affected commands include suddenly braking, locking, and unlocking...

Pixel Update Bulletin—April 2019Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Pixel Update Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities and functional improvements affecting supported Google Pixel devices Google devices. For Google devices, security patch levels of 2019-04-05 or later address all issues in this bulletin and all issues in the April 2019 Android...

Android Security Bulletin—April 2019Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Security patch levels of 2019-04-05 or later address all of these issues. To learn how to check a device's security patch level, see Check and update your Android version. Android partners are...

FreeBSD : X11 Session -- SDDM allows unauthorised unlocking (f00acdec-b59f-11e8-805d-001e2a3f778d)

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...

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

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-2017-17435

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

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...

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...