Tamper-Detection App for Android

Edward Snowden and Nathan Freitas have created an Android app that detects when it's being tampered with. The basic idea is to put the app on a second phone and put the app on or near something important, like your laptop. The app can then text you -- and also record audio and video -- when...

EvilAbigail - Automated Linux Evil Maid Attack

Automated Linux evil maid attack Scenario Laptop left turned off with FDE turned on Attacker boots from USB/CD/Network Script executes and backdoors initrd User returns to laptop, boots as normal Backdoored initrd loads: Debian/Ubuntu/Kali .so file into /sbin/init on boot, dropping a shell...

Alexa, Are You Spying On Me? Not Really, Maybe, It's Complex!

Do you own an Amazon Echo? So are you also worried about hackers turning out your device into a covert listening device? Just relax, if there's no NSA, no CIA or none of your above-skilled friends after you. Since yesterday there have been several reports on Amazon Echo hack that could allow a...

SD Maid - System Cleaning Tool - Exported components, External URLs, Possible privilege escalation vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application SD Maid - System Cleaning Tool published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Check Point response to the "Evil Maid" attack

Symptoms Check Point Full Disk Encryption is not vulnerable to the "Evil Maid" attack. Solution Full technical details of the "Evil Maid" attack Check Point Full Disk Encryption is not vulnerable to the "Evil Maid" attack, as this particular program specifically targets the True Crypt boot code,...

On the Evil Maid USB Attack, Time Warner and the Cybersecurity Czar

Dennis Fisher and Ryan Naraine discuss the Evil Maid USB attack, the Time Warner modem vulnerability and that old standby: the cybersecurity czar. Download SHOW NOTES: How to Defeat Full-Disk Encryption in One Minute Time Warner Router Flaw Exposes Customers Apathy Creeps In as Cybersecurity Czar...

How to Defeat Full-Disk Encryption in One Minute

Full-disk encryption is often heralded as a panacea to the huge problems of data breaches and laptop thefts, and with good reason. Making the data on a laptop or other device unreadable makes the machine far less attractive or valuable to a thief. However, researchers are showing that this soluti...