Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

The popular messaging platform WhatsApp made the headlines again, a new bug could be exploited by hackers to secretly install spyware. According to the website The Hacker News, WhatsApp has recently fixed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-11931, that could have allowed attackers to remotely compromise targeted devices. The CVE-2019-11931 is a stack-based buffer overflow issue that affects the way WhatsApp handles the elementary stream metadata of an MP4 file. “A stack-based buf

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NOVEMBER 16, 2019

A border privacy win, a suspect Army app, and more of the week's top security news.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

A working exploit for the checkm8 BootROM vulnerability is now available and security experts fear that threat actors could use is in attacks in the wild. This week, the “ unpatchable ” jailbreak, known as Checkra1n, for the checkm8 BootROM vulnerability was officially released potentially threatening millions of devices. “This release is an early beta preview and as such should not be installed on a primary device.

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