Posts Tagged ‘address book’

Find and Call: Leak and Spam

Jul

2012

Yesterday we were contacted by our partner MegaFon, one of the major mobile carriers in Russia. They notified us about a suspicious application, which was found in both the Apple App Store and Google Play. At first glance, this seemed to be an SMS worm spread via sending short messages to all contacts stored in […]

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Apple released OS X Lion v10.7.3 and Security Updates

Feb

2012

Apple released OS X Lion v10.7.3 and the Security Update 2012-001 to address some vulnerabilities in various components. All the fixes are important, but these can have a direct negative effect on your personal privacy and security because they can be very easily exploited: Address book – An attacker in a privileged network position may […]

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Cross-Scripting Vulnerability in Skype iOS App Exposes Contact Information

Sep

2011

A cross-scripting vulnerability affecting Skype’s iOS app has been discovered and a video has been provided, whereby sending a specific a specific text message sent to a user can copy their Address Book. This attack uses Javascript, and, “Executing arbitrary Javascript code is one thing, but I found that Skype also improperly defines the URI […]

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