Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2019
Researcher published a PoC exploit code for critical vulnerabilities that could be chained to implement an iOS jailbreak On iPhone X The security researcher Qixun Zhao of Qihoo 360’s Vulcan Team has published a PoC exploit code for critical vulnerabilities in Apple Safari web browser and iOS that could be exploited by a remote attacker to jailbreak […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2019
Security expert Robert Baptiste (akaElliot Alderson) discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2019-6447) in the ES File Explorer that potentially expose hundreds of million Android installs. The ES File Explorer is an Android file manager that has over 100,000,000 installs and more than 500 million users worldwide according to its developer. Baptiste discovered that the application uses a local […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2019
Security experts from Trend Micro have recently spotted two Android apps that use the motion sensor to evade detection and spread the Anubis banking Trojan. Malware authors continue to improve their malicious apps to avoid detection and infect the largest number of users. Security experts from Trend Micro have recently spotted two Android apps in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2019
A bug in the Twitter app for Android may have had exposed tweets, the social media platform revealed on Thursday. The bug in the Android Twitter app affects the “Protect my Tweets” option from the account’s “Privacy and safety” settings that allows viewing user’s posts only to approved followers. People who used the Twitter app […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2019
Google released its security patches for Android in 2019 that addressed tens of vulnerabilities in the popular mobile OS. Google released the first batch of security patches for Android in 2019 that addressed tens of flaws, the most severe of them is the CVE-2018-9583 issue. The CVE-2018-9583 flaw is a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
Three years after its disclosure, Google has patched an information disclosure flaw in the Android version of the popular Chrome web browser. The issue exposes devices information, including device model and firmware version, an attacker could exploit this info to remotely identify unpatched devices and target them. The flaw ties the way the Android version […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2018
New thunderclouds on Facebook, the social network giant is accused of tracking non-users via Android apps. According to a report presented by Privacy International yesterday at 35C3 hacking conference held in Germany, the list of Android apps that send tracking and personal information back to Facebook includes dozens of apps including Kayak, Yelp, and Shazam, “Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2018
The latest version of Google OS, Android Pie, implements significant enhancements for cybersecurity, including a stronger encryption and authentication. Google experts worked on OS hardening and the implementation of anti-exploitation mechanisms with a great attention to the user privacy. The tech giant updated the File-Based Encryption implementing the support for external storage media, it also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2018
Malware researcher discovered 13 fraudulent apps into Google Play that have been already downloaded and installed more than 560,000 times. Malware researcher Lukas Stefanko from security firm ESET discovered 13 malicious apps into Google Play that have been already downloaded and installed over half a million times (+560,000). The malicious apps could allow attackers to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2018
The Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018 is a success, participants earned over $300,000 for disclosing flaws affecting iPhone X, Xiaomi Mi 6 and Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphones. During the first day of the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018 contest, participants hacked Apple iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Xiaomi Mi 6 devices earning more than $225,000. The novelty […]
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