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The Killswitch : They can remotely modify your Window 8
The Killswitch : They can remotely modify your Window 8 Last year,a Finnish software developer, was cruising Google's Android Market for smartphone apps last year when he noticed something strange. Dozens of best-selling applications suddenly listed the same wrong publisher. Google uses a little...
Google Android Operating System 2.3 < 2.3.6 Information Disclosure
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Google Android Mobile Device Detection
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Google Android Mobile Device Detection via Browser
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China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps
China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps Mobile malware is rising, and there have been explosions in the world of viruses and Trojans. Virus makers are now targeting mobile platforms- thanks to their growing popularity. If we take the statistics from last 6 months, the chances ...
RIM Exec Says Blackberry Service Wasn't Hacked…Really!
Research in Motion CTO David Yach said that the rolling service outages that its Blackberry mobile phone system has experienced in the last few days wasn’t due to a security compromise, but to an unsuccessful fail over following a core switch failure in Europe. “I know there’s often speculation i...
Google Android Operating System 2.3.4 / 3.1 Sandbox Bypass Vulnerability
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Windows Loses Hacker Star Status In Next Decade
The next decade will see Microsoft lose its grip as the most-used and most attacked platform, as a new generation of hackers and cybercriminals diversify, launching attacks on a growing population of mobile devices and computers that run operating systems other than Windows, according to Kaspersk...
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
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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...