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More Brits Leaving Internet Passwords in Wills

Oct

2011

The idea of people leaving their Facebook passwords in their wills is certainly not a mainstreaan concept- at the moment. However, if one really stops to think of it, our growing reliance on internet based services prompts the necessity of such action. In fact, a study conducted in behalf of Rackspace, a cloud computing company, […]

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First malware using Android Gingerbreak root exploit

Aug

2011

It did not take too long after I found out about the discovery of Gingermaster, the first Android malware to use the Gingerbreak exploit, to acquire a sample which was still available from a Chinese alternative Android Marketplace. The package I downloaded uses the following permissions: android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE android.permission.READ_LOGS android.permission.DELETE_CACHE_FILES android.permission.ACCESS_CACHE_FILESYSTEM android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.MOUNT_UNMOUNT_FILESYSTEMS […]

Category General Written by Naked Security - Sophos 0 Comments

Timthumb security vulnerability – List of themes including it

Aug

2011

The Timthumb 0-day security vulnerability is generating a lot of noise and for a good reason. If you have a theme with that installed, your site can be easily hacked. Because of that, we checked the WordPress free repository and listed the themes in there that include this script. If you use any of them, […]

Category Security Written by Sucuri 0 Comments

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