Day: December 20, 2014

‘mailx’ used for sending and receiving mail – widely used in several Linux distributions get the patch for two security flaws. Both the vulnerabilities occur due to improper parsing of email addresses and rated as “moderate”. CVE-2014-7844 covers the execution of arbitrary shell commands locally, whereas CVE-2004-2771 fixes the execution Continue Reading

Coolpad – an Android based smartphones are equipped with a backdoor by the manufacturer. Obviously the idea is not only to give user preferences advertisement, but also install applications without the knowledge of users. Coolpad devices have a strong user base in China and Taiwan. Security researchers of Palo Alto Continue Reading