Apple iOS 9 PATCHES Airdrop flaw

Apple has released an update for iOS 9, fixes a critical security flaw allowing intruders to inject malicious files in iPhones that can be used to hijack victim's phone later on. Security researcher Mark Dowd from Azimuth Security found the issue which affects almost all devices using iOS 7 or later, along with all Mac OS X Yosemite versions. According to PoC where Mark Dowd was forcing crafted files to an iPhone using Apple's AirDrop, even though the request to transfer was denied by the user. AirDrop provides file sharing facility between iOS and OS X devices using WiFi and/or Bluetooth. AirDrop is vulnerable to directory traversal attack allowing intruders to make modification in victim's OS setting and install malicious apps and rest will be done accordingly. All an attacker needs to install a malicious app is to have a legitimate Apple enterprise certificate to validate the app's installation process. <more>

Beware!! Android Lollipop users

Researchers from University of Texas has found a security flaw in the lock screen feature of Android 5.x. According to John Gordon, a network security analyst at the University of Texas, the issue exists in the password field - unable to handle a sufficiently long string while the camera app is active, allowing an attacker to crash the lock screen. From the locked screen, one can easily bypass the security. The potential attacker can open the emergency call window, fill it with characters, then copy those into the password field via the settings option on the locked screen until the user interface crashes. By using USB debugging normally allows access to vulnerable device to execute arbitrary command or gain access to files with full rights. Google was notified about the issue earlier this year and responded swiftly to release a security patch in June to rectify this issue. Google urge users to apply updates on earliest basis. <more>

Google Chrome 45 addresses 29 flaws

Google has released Chrome 45 to address 29 security flaws affecting Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. According to Google advisory, Six issues are rated as CRITICAL allowing remote code execution. These high-severity issues addressed cross-origin bypass flaws in DOM, covered in CVE-2015-1291 and CVE-2015-1293, where as a cross-origin bypass issue occurs in Service Worker that is covered in CVE-2015-1292. Besides this, multiple use-after-free flaws in Skia (CVE-2015-1294) and Printing (CVE-2015-1295), and a character spoofing bug in the Omnibox address bar (CVE-2015-1296). The latest version also patched medium severity vulnerabilities in WebRequests, extensions and in the Blink web browser engine. Google credits security researchers Mariusz Mlynski, Rob Wu, Alexander Kashev, and experts using the online monikers taro.suzuki.dev, cgvwzq, cloudfuzzer, and zcorpan for finding vulnerabilities in the browser. So far, company has given rewards of $40,500 through bug bounty program. Morever, Google has decided to stop running Flash Ads due to various flaws found in Adobe Flash from time to time. Google is automatically converting most of the Flash ads uploaded to AdWords to HTML5, otherwise it can be done manually using a tool provided by the company. <more>

Bugzilla hack eXposes Firefox 0-day flaw

Mozilla confirmed about Bugzilla breached by an attacker who was able to get access to sensitive information about zero-day flaws in Firefox. According to Mozilla, the intruder was able to breach a high-level user's account who had access to Bugzilla that contains information of non-public zero-day security flaws. Mozilla said attacker took control of the account since September 2013 and accessed approximately 185 vulnerabilities that were non-public, where 53 vulnerabilities considered CRITICAL flaws. However, company claims 43 of the severe flaws had already been patched, but 10 unpatched security flaws are still in the hands of intruder which pose a huge security risk for Firefox users. <more>