Sentences with phrase «allows malicious applications»

We told you earlier today about the Intrepidous Group who gave a speech at the Infiltrate conference about «several high risk vulnerabilities with RIM's Blackberry Playbook that allows malicious applications to access personal information, contacts, and emails from connected Blackberry phones.»

Not exact matches

Computer scientists from the Center for IT Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA) have now developed a matching application for the current version of the Android smartphone operating system, allowing for a more precise monitoring of malicious apps.

The UPnP system is, in fairness, way more useful than the WPS system — it automates the process of opening ports in your firewall for applications like Skype and Plex media server — but like WPS it has security flaws that can allow malicious parties access to your router.

thehackernews.com - A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been discovered in one of the biggest identity - as - a-service platform Auth0 that could have allowed a malicious attacker to access any portal or application

The first vulnerability, «Meltdown», affects Intel - made x86 processors, while the second one, «Spectre», can affect pretty much any CPU out there it essentially allows malicious programs to steal data from the memory of other applications, which can cause some serious damage to users, needless to say.