New Android Trojan Surfaces in China

Lookout Mobile Security discovered a new Android based Trojan called HongTouTou aka ADRD Trojan that is packaging itself in popular Android apps and delivering itself through app markets and Chinese forums. This piece of malware is requesting additional permissions from users and may also be...

Veracode Announces Mobile App Verification Service

Application testing firm Veracode said on Wednesday that it was expanding its service to vet the security of mobile applications to cover Apple iPhone and Google Android devices. In a statement, Veracode said it was accepting submissions of mobile applications for testing for all mobile platforms...

Google Android 1.x/2.x - Local Privilege Escalation

/ android 1.x/2.x the real youdev feat. init local root exploit. C 2009/2010 by The Android Exploid Crew. Copy from sdcard to /sqlitestmtjournals/exploid, chmod 0755 and run. Or use /data/local/tmp if available thx to ioerror! It is important to to use /sqlitestmtjournals directory if available...

8) Your next wallet is a phone. Discuss.

Mobile payments have been going strong in countries like Japan and Finland for years now. In the U.S., however, its taken longer for mobile payments to get a hold on consumers. That’s all about to change. Late model mobile devices like Apple’s iPhone and Google Android-based phones now offer...

Microsoft Targets Android with Patent Infringement Allegations

The mobile phone wars became more interesting late on Tuesday when Microsoft publicly claimed for the first time that Google's Android operating system infringes on its intellectual property. According to sources close to the company, Microsoft believes that Android infringes on its patented...

Android G2 Phone Can Roll Back Jailbreaks

Since at least the time of the release of the first generation Apple iPhone, sophisticated smartphone users have been working diligently to jailbreak their devices in order to load their own software, install third-party applications and make other modifications. Now, one Android device, the G2...

Vodafone-Distributed Handset Found Pre-installed With Mariposa Bot

Security researchers have found the Mariposa bot client pre-installed on a mobile phone handset distributed in Europe, and say that the malware looks to have been installed on the phone’s memory card. The phone, the HTC Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system, and is a low-priced...

Google Android multiple security vulnerabilities

DoS via SMS, DoS via Dalvik API...

How to Plan for Smartphone Security in the Enterprise

From eWEEK Chris De Herrera One of the major challenges CIOs face is the deployment and security of smartphones in the enterprise. It’s important for CIOs to assess how their organization should secure the smartphones employees use to access corporate resources. Here, Knowledge Center contributor...

Mobile security can no longer be ignored

By Paul F. Roberts, The 451 Group Starting this week at the annual CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, some of the world’s best hackers will crack their knuckles and get to work on a different kind of problem: hacking mobile devices including Apple’s über popular iPhone. The...

Pwn2Own 2009: Browsers and smart phones are targets

TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative has released the rules for this year’s CanSecWest PWN2OWN contest, which will target unpatched flaws in Web browsers and mobile devices. Among the target list this year: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome, Windows Mobile, Google...

T-Mobile G1 phone Google Android protection bypass

Pplication can run telnetd with root privileges...

Applications can open up remote root access on G1 Phone

Hi, Google Android applications on the T-Mobile G1 can spawn a telnetd that gives remote root access to your phone: http://www.android-unleashed.com/2008/11/howto-get-root-on-your-android-g1-and.html This particular method needs user interaction, but a rogue Android app could easily run telnetd...

Integer overflow

Integer overflow in the BMP::readFromStream method in the libsgl.so library in Google Android SDK m3-rc37a and earlier, and m5-rc14, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP file with a header containing a negative offset field...

CVE-2008-0986

Integer overflow in the BMP::readFromStream method in the libsgl.so library in Google Android SDK m3-rc37a and earlier, and m5-rc14, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP file with a header containing a negative offset field...

EUVD-2008-0992

Heap-based buffer overflow in the GIF library in the WebKit framework for Google Android SDK m3-rc37a and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted GIF file whose logical screen height and width are different than the actual height and width...

CVE-2008-0986

Integer overflow in the BMP::readFromStream method in the libsgl.so library in Google Android SDK m3-rc37a and earlier, and m5-rc14, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP file with a header containing a negative offset field...

EUVD-2008-0993

Integer overflow in the BMP::readFromStream method in the libsgl.so library in Google Android SDK m3-rc37a and earlier, and m5-rc14, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP file with a header containing a negative offset field...

CVE-2008-0985

Heap-based buffer overflow in the GIF library in the WebKit framework for Google Android SDK m3-rc37a and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted GIF file whose logical screen height and width are different than the actual height and width...

CVE-2008-0986

CVE-2008-0986 describes an integer overflow in the Android libsgl.so BMP reader (BMP::readFromStream) used in Google Android SDK m3-rc37a and earlier, and m5-rc14. When the BMP header’s offset field is negative and the DIB header specifies 8 bpp, the parser allocates a palette using the negative ...