KIK Messenger Password Disclosure

KIK Messenger stores password in plain text This is the conclusion of Mobile Security Company, a Dutch organisation specialized in security audits of mobile applications. The username and password are stored in the com.kik.chat.plist file. This file can be viewed on a jailbroken device or when...

avast! Mobile Security Android application denial-of-service vulnerability

Overview avast! Mobile Security Android application version 2.0.3587, and possibly earlier versions, contains a denial-of-service vulnerability. Description avast! Mobile Security version 2.0.3587 crashes if an Intent is sent to com.avast.android.mobilesecurity.app.scanner.DeleteFileActivity with...

Malicious Infrared X-Ray Android app infecting users in Japan

Researchers are already warning that malware authors developing more sophisticated attack techniques for mobile devices, using encryption and randomization or hiding malicious code in image files. As analyzed by Symantec a malicious Infrared X-Ray Android application, attempting to lure Android...

Critical iOS vulnerability in Configuration Profiles pose malware threat

Israeli mobile security start-up Skycure has exposed a vulnerability that could allow hackers to control and spy on iPhones. A major security vulnerability for iOS configuration profiles pose malware threat. The vulnerability affects a file known as mobileconf files, which are used by cell phone...

Cyber security scenario according to WebSense

It's time of stocktaking, principal security firm are proposing their analysis to synthesize actual situation on cyber security, 2012 is widely considered a year when the malware has increased significantly thanks to the contributions of various actors that we will analyze shortly. WebSense has...

Stefan Esser

Mobile security researcher Stefan Esser discussed the security model of Apple iOS and some of the recent changes the company has made to lock it down even further...

HTC Settlement Could Alter Mobile Security and Privacy Landscape

HTC America’s settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Friday has the potential to revamp not only how hardware manufacturers handle the security and privacy of mobile devices, but how carriers do so, as well. “In many ways, this settlement is a shot across the bow of the handset and...

Chris Soghoian on Wireless Carriers and Android Security

youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzoACtJk3sI&hl=enUS&version=3 Chris Soghoian of the ACLU discusses the looming crisis of mobile security caused by the failure of mobile carriers to push Android updates to users at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit Monday...

Bugtraq Penetration Testing Linux

Bugtraq -2 Blackwidow is a Open-Source Linux Distribution based in Ubuntu and Debian with PAE kernel 3.2 and 3.4 Hacker ‘s suite where you will find all kinds of tools for the best systems auditory. Adapted for beginners in Ethical hacking computer security, and for experts in this field. Is not...

Dan Guido on the THREADS Mobile Security Conference

Dennis Fisher talks with Dan Guido, CEO of Trail of Bits and hacker-in-residence at NYU-Poly, about the school’s first mobile security conference, called THREADS, taking place this week in Brooklyn. Part of the college’s Cybersecurity Awareness Week CSAW, THREADS will include speaker such as Dino...

Eugene Kaspersky Chats With Facebook Users About Malware, Cybercrime and Piracy

Hi, folks! For the last two weeks each and every fan of official Kaspersky Lab Facebook pages worldwide had the chance to ask our CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, anything at all and we must say that some of our fans took this literally: Thank you for the hundreds of great questions! There’s nothing more...

Infographic: Veracode on Mobile Security and Protecting Your Device

Veracode have put out another snazzy infographic, this time to help illustrate the mobile computing boom of the last few years. To accompany the BYOD Bring Your Own Device policy that’s becoming commonplace in offices around the world, the web security firm uses two characters, Joe Worker and Joe...

CVE-2012-3735

CVE-2012-3735 affects Apple iOS prior to 6, where the Passcode Lock display logic on the lock screen can reveal the most recently used third‑party app when the user interacts with the Slide to Power Off control. Root cause: a logic issue in lock state management. Impact: a physically proximate at...

ZeroNights 2012, Москва 19-20 ноября

Привет всем, Попросили запостить от defcon-group. Цитата: Заявка на участие в конференции в качестве докладчика ZeroNights — международная конференция, посвященная техническим аспектам информационной безопасности. Главная цель конференции — распространение информации о новых методах атак, угрозах...

Kevin Mitnick joins the Zimperium team

Security firm Zimperium developer of Android app zANTI Android application Toolkit now have World Best Hacker "Kevin Mitnick" in their Team. In a Press Release ,Itzhak "Zuk" Avraham said "Zimperium is honored and excited to announce our newest member of the advisory board, world renowned hacker...

Traffic Sniffing, Not Botnet, May Have Led to Android Spam Run

It’s not every day that you get a security story that involves Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, but that’s what has happened with the claims from a Microsoft official that there was an Android-based botnet in existence sending spam from compromised devices. Now it seems that the spam emanating from...

RiskRanker : A New malware detection technique

RiskRanker : A New malware detection technique For many years, mobile security experts have been fighting an uphill battle against malware, which has been steadily and dramatically increasing in both volume and sophistication. Well, NQ Mobile's Mobile Security Research Center, in collaboration wi...

zAnti Pentester's Worldcup tournament open for Hackers

zAnti Pentester's Worldcup tournament open for Hackers Today is a great day to be a security enthusiastic since Zimperium kicked off the first ever penetration testing tournament. — Welcome to the Pentester's Worldcup! Zimperium, a mobile security software start-up was founded by Itzhak "Zuk"...

Security Veterans Score Funding for New Startup Bluebox

Many people would consider themselves lucky to be a part of one successful start-up company, but for a select group of entrepreneurs, engineers and executives, that’s just the beginning. Such is the case for the team behind new mobile security firm Bluebox, a stealth-mode company that counts SPI...

Root Access Vulnerability on ZTE Android Device

Certain Android devices manufactured by the China-based ZTE Corporation contain a poorly protected setuid shell that can be used to gain root-access to vulnerable devices, according to Lookout Mobile Security. Any attacker who successfully exploits the vulnerability will have complete control of...