Networking-Forums.com

Professional Discussions => Security => Topic started by: deanwebb on July 27, 2015, 09:56:24 AM

Title: EVERY Mobile Device is Vulnerable
Post by: deanwebb on July 27, 2015, 09:56:24 AM
 :shock:

Android has the Stagefright vulnerability, due to that media system having too many privileges.

Smartwatches don't have enough strong authentication features, over-reliance on cloud for storage.

And the iPhones? There's a new appstore vulnerability: "Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in session hijacking, persistent phishing attacks, persistent redirect to external sources and persistent manipulation of affected or connected service module context."

:kidwoohoo:
Title: Re: EVERY Mobile Device is Vulnerable
Post by: icecream-guy on July 28, 2015, 07:06:14 AM
should we go back to drawing on cave walls by torchlight?

Title: Re: EVERY Mobile Device is Vulnerable
Post by: deanwebb on July 28, 2015, 07:14:59 AM
Quote from: ristau5741 on July 28, 2015, 07:06:14 AM
should we go back to drawing on cave walls by torchlight?

There are LOTS of known vulnerabilities for caves, as well as torches. One of the first advisories issued was, "Watch out for bears in caves!" Hot on the heels of that one - pun very intended - was, "Fire can burn things that you might not want to have burned!" They're right up there with "Don't eat those kinds of berries" and "Don't poop where you eat" as security advisories that we likely inherited from pre-modern strains of humanity.
Title: Re: EVERY Mobile Device is Vulnerable
Post by: hizzo3 on July 28, 2015, 10:07:11 AM
Guess its about time we get this quantum encryption up and running. Figure out site to site quantum entanglement communication.
Title: Re: EVERY Mobile Device is Vulnerable
Post by: NetworkGroover on July 28, 2015, 11:21:59 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on July 28, 2015, 07:14:59 AM
Quote from: ristau5741 on July 28, 2015, 07:06:14 AM
should we go back to drawing on cave walls by torchlight?

There are LOTS of known vulnerabilities for caves, as well as torches. One of the first advisories issued was, "Watch out for bears in caves!" Hot on the heels of that one - pun very intended - was, "Fire can burn things that you might not want to have burned!" They're right up there with "Don't eat those kinds of berries" and "Don't poop where you eat" as security advisories that we likely inherited from pre-modern strains of humanity.

Leave it to Dean...  :problem?:
Title: Re: EVERY Mobile Device is Vulnerable
Post by: deanwebb on July 28, 2015, 11:35:59 AM
Good news on the Apple front: Apple issued a patch to fix the iStore thing.