CVE-2016-2312

Turning all screens off in Plasma-workspace and kscreenlocker while the lock screen is shown can result in the screen being unlocked when turning a screen on again...

CVE-2016-2312

CVE-2016-2312 describes a vulnerability in Plasma-workspace/kscreenlocker where turning all screens off while the lock screen is shown can cause the screen to unlock when a screen is turned back on. The issue is documented across multiple sources (NVD, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE OSV entries) with t...

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Console Security Bypass Vulnerability

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise is a suite of antivirus software.McAfee VirusScan Console is one of the consoles. A security vulnerability in the McAfee VirusScan Console mcconsol.exe of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise allows a local attacker to bypass restricted self-protection rules by turning off...

Google has also been Ordered to Unlock 9 Android Phones

The legal battle between Apple and the FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation over a locked iPhone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters may be over, but the Department of Justice DoJ are back in front of a judge with a similar request. The American Civil Liberties Union ACLU has...

Gone in Less Than a Second

LAS VEGAS–Do not let Samy Kamkar near your car. Kamkar has built a new device that is about the size of a wallet and can intercept the codes used to unlock most cars and many garage doors. The device can be hidden underneath a vehicle and when the owner approaches and hits the unlock button on he...

SUSE-SU-2015:0803-1 Security update for gdm

The GNOME Display Manager was updated to fix several bugs: Security issue fixed: - Removed gdm-fingerprint and gdm-smartcard pamfiles that allowed unlocking the screen without password or fingerprint if fingerprint reader support was enabled. boo900836. Bugs fixed: - Fix support for...

Hurray! Unlocking Your Cell Phone is Officially Legal Again

President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Friday that aims to make it legal for consumers to “unlock” their cell phones in order to change their cell phone service providers without paying for a new phone. The bill is known as the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, which...

Zeus 2.x variant includes ransomware features

Zeus 2.x variant includes ransomware features Cybercriminals are getting more sophisticated, as reports are coming in that hacker coders have successfully merged a ransom trojan with a Zeus malware successor called Citadel. A notorious malware platform targeting financial information has added a...

Android facial recognition based unlocking can be fooled with photo

Android facial recognition based unlocking can be fooled with photo Another Android Feature Exploited, Funny that Android facial recognition based unlocking can be fooled with photo . Check out the video below, courtesy of Malaysia's SoyaCincau : He said "While some of you think that it is a tric...

gnome-screensaver security update

2.16.1-8 Resolves: 436522 - rebuild against 5.1 nss 2.16.1-7 Resolves: 436522 - dont unlock the screen when pwent lookup fails 2.16.1-6 Resolves: 245345 - Add missing BuildRequires to fix fade in...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: gnome-screensaver security update

An updated gnome-screensaver package that fixes a security flaw is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. gnome-screensaver is the GNOME project's official screen saver program. A flaw was...

Apple iPhones multiple security vulnerabilities

Vulnerable version of libtiff allows code execution and, as a result, allows to unlock phone...

CVE-2005-0176

The shmctl function in Linux 2.6.9 and earlier allows local users to unlock the memory of other processes, which could cause sensitive memory to be swapped to disk, which could allow it to be read by other users once it has been released...