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Stagefright is the name given to a group of software bugs that affect versions from 2.2 "Froyo" up until 5.1.1 "Lollipop" [1] of the Android operating system exposing an estimated 950 million devices (95% of all Android devices) at the time. [1]
The Damn Vulnerable Web Application is a software project that intentionally includes security vulnerabilities and is intended for educational purposes. [1] [2] [3]
Android 4.1.1, used in various portable devices. [137] Chris Smith writes in Boy Genius Report that just this one version of Android is affected but that it is a popular version of Android (Chitika claim 4.1.1 is on 50 million devices; [138] Google describe it as less than 10% of activated Android devices). Other Android versions are not ...
Meltdown exploits a race condition, inherent in the design of many modern CPUs.This occurs between memory access and privilege checking during instruction processing. . Additionally, combined with a cache side-channel attack, this vulnerability allows a process to bypass the normal privilege checks that isolate the exploit process from accessing data belonging to the operating system and other ...
1] Google hacking, also named Google dorking, [2] [3] is a hacker technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites are using.
The anti-virus software maker claims Android's. Flickr source Android-based phones make up 99 percent of the mobile devices targeted in cyber attacks, according to prominent technology expert ...
Thirdly, the paper synthesizes the results with return-oriented programming exploits and other principles with a simple example program and a JavaScript snippet run under a sandboxing browser; in both cases, the entire address space of the victim process (i.e. the contents of a running program) is shown to be readable by simply exploiting ...
As a proof of concept, Miller created an application called Instastock that was approved by Apple's App Store. He then informed Apple about the security hole, who promptly expelled him from the App Store. [8] Miller participated in research on discovering security vulnerabilities in NFC (Near Field Communication). [9]