Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Google Alert - Vulnerabilities

=== News - 9 new results for [Vulnerabilities] ===

New X-Ray Android Security App Scans Devices For Vulnerabilities
Threatpost (blog)
Duo Security today is releasing a new app called X-Ray that scans Android
devices for known vulnerabilities and alerts users to which ones remain
unpatched. X-Ray doesn't look for malicious apps, as some existing security
scanners do, but instead ...
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-x-ray-android-security-app-scans-devices-vulnerabilities-072312>
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Android Gets Security Boost From Duo Security, DARPA
eWeek
"Mobile malware authors have capitalized on the fact that such
vulnerabilities go unpatched for many months due to conservative carrier
patching practices," Oberheide wrote in an email. "We hope that X-Ray will
raise user awareness about the security of ...
<http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Android-Gets-Security-Boost-From-Duo-Security-DARPA-604514/>
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Hacker Will Expose Potential Security Flaw In Four Million Hotel Room
Keycard ...
Forbes
At the Black Hat security conference Tuesday evening, a Mozilla software
developer and 24-year old security researcher named Cody Brocious plans to
present a pair of vulnerabilities he's discovered in hotel room locks from
the manufacturer Onity, whose ...
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/07/23/hacker-will-expose-potential-security-flaw-in-more-than-four-million-hotel-room-keycard-locks/>
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Manufacturer declares death of bugs Stuxnet used to sabotage Iran nukes
Ars Technica
German conglomerate Siemens on Monday said it has fixed vulnerabilities in
its software products that appeared to be identical to those that allowed
the Stuxnet computer worm to disrupt Iran's nuclear program. In advisories
published here and here, ...
<http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/industial-bugs-exploited-by-stuxnet-fixed/>
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[New App] X-Ray For Android From Duo Security Scans Your Device For Root ...
Android Police
We've all read the horror stories: a new virus is crawling through the
third-party stores, aiming to steal your personal information, identity,
and first born child. More often than not, this type of malicious app is
made possible because of one of the various root ...
<http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/07/23/new-app-x-ray-for-android-scans-your-device-for-root-vulnerabilities-unfortunately-cant-fix-them/>
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Hacking attacks on printers still not being taken seriously
Equities.com
"We have demonstrated not only that the firmware update function of certain
printers is faulty, but that there are still a number of known
vulnerabilities in the real-time operating systems [such as Linux] used in
a large number of printer models." These include ...
<http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2012-07-23&val=296706&cat=tech>
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Black Hat finds holes in ARM, x86, embedded
EE Times
SAN JOSE – Security experts will show vulnerabilities in everything from
ARM processors to x86 CPUs and even hotel locks at the annual Black Hat
conference in Las Vegas this week. A handful of sessions will detail
security holes in broad sets of embedded ...
<http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4390935/Black-Hat-finds-holes-in-ARM--x86--embedded>
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Firefox version 14 Provides Better Online Security for Your Internet
Browsing ...
Midsize Insider
Hackers look for vulnerabilities in business computer systems to allow them
easier access, and one of the most popular ways to break into computer
systems is through Internet browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox,
and Google Chrome. Vulnerabilities ...
<http://midsizeinsider.com/en-us/article/firefox-version-14-provides-better-onlin>
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Virtualization And The Apple Effect
InformationWeek
That time is now, and evidence of hypervisor vulnerabilities in 64-bit
paravirtualized Xen hosts (CVE-2012-0217) has brought home exactly how
right those old-timers were. When it comes to market share, the hypervisor
is king. Our InformationWeek 2012 ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/virtualization/240004145>
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