Researchers from Vulnerability Lab have identified a high-severity local code execution security hole in the 4.31 version of the firmware installed on Sony’s PlayStation 3 consoles. The vulnerability was reported to Sony in October 2012, but it was only recently fixed. According to the Vulnerability... [read more >>] Researchers from Security Explorations have identified a total of nine ways to completely bypass the IBM Java sandbox. Of these nine exploits, five are new ones and four are old issues that haven’t been properly addressed. According to Adam Gowdiak, the founder and CEO of the Polish security firm, th... [read more >>] A security researcher that uses the online moniker TibitXimer claims that Skype accounts can be easily hacked by social engineering the company’s support team. He came to this conclusion after his own account had been hijacked six times in a single day. TibitXimer says that accounts can be taken ove... [read more >>] Experts from security firm Bkav have identified a vulnerability in Viber – the popular application that allows users to make calls, send text messages and photos for free. The security hole could be exploited to bypass the lock screen on Android smartphones and gain full access to the device. Accordi... [read more >>] Less than a week has passed since Oracle released its April 2013 Critical Patch Update for Java and researchers have already identified a vulnerability affecting the latest version of the software. Polish firm Security Explorations has discovered a Reflection API issue – dubbed “Issue 61”... [read more >>] A total of 128 vulnerabilities have been addressed by Oracle with the release of the company’s April 2013 Critical Patch Update (CPU).
The list of affected products includes Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware, E-Business Suite, Supply Chain, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Health Sciences, Retail, Oracle FLEXCU... [read more >>] Over the past few months, Poland-based Security Explorations has been in the news because of the vulnerabilities they’ve identified in Oracle’s Java SE.
However, the company has also done some interesting research regarding the security issues that plague the field of digital satellite TV... [read more >>] At the end of February, Oracle confirmed a sandbox bypass vulnerability identified by experts from Security Explorations. However, the security firm was displeased with the fact that Oracle had only catalogued one of the issues used for the bypass as a security hole.
The sandbox bypass leverages two bugs d... [read more >>] Considering the large amounts of money being offered at Pwn2Own 2013, we shouldn’t be surprised that most of the web browsers have been hacked on the first day of the competition, held these days in Canada as part of the CanSecWest conference.
So far, Firefox, Internet Explorer 10, Java and Chrome h... [read more >>] On Wednesday, we learned that Oracle had assigned tracking numbers to the Java 7 issues reported to the company by Security Explorations, but it hadn’t confirmed the vulnerabilities. Now, Oracle has officially confirmed the full sandbox bypass, but the experts are unhappy with the firm’s assessm... [read more >>] |
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