Mobile Security and Lack thereof

Mobile Security and Lack thereof Nidhi Rastogi ,A Security Consultant with Logic Technology Inc, New York share her Views about the Mobile Security and Lack thereof . The Article is taken from our September Month Magazine Edition .Here we go.. Mobile technology, particularly smartphones, has come...

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes What if a hacker could log every key you typed on your PC by placing a cellphone nearby? US researchers have shown how this is possible using any smartphone available today. At a conference in Chicago on Thursday, a group of computer...

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes

iPhone can be used as spy phone to get desktop Keystrokes What if a hacker could log every key you typed on your PC by placing a cellphone nearby? US researchers have shown how this is possible using any smartphone available today. At a conference in Chicago on Thursday, a group of computer...

New Research Shows Possibility of Using an iPhone as a Keylogger

Researchers from MIT and Georgia Tech have developed a new technique that enables them to use the accelerometer in an iPhone or other smartphone to capture keystrokes from a nearby PC and decipher the typed words with about 80 percent accuracy. The tactic, while quite complicated, could be used t...

BlackBerry Security Guide by Incident Response Team (BBSIRT)

BlackBerry Security Guide by Incident Response Team BBSIRT On September 30th, we reported that a Russian security company Elcomsoft, has upgraded a phone-password cracking suite with the ability to figure out the master device password for Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices. In response to...

More Android vulnerabilities exposed [Video Demonstration]

More Android vulnerabilities exposed Video Demonstration It's been more than a month since researchers reported two serious security vulnerabilities in Android, but so far there's no indication when they will be purged from the Google-spawned operating system that's the world's most popular...

BlackBerry Enterprise Server PNG and TIFF Image Processing Vulnerabilities (KB27244)

The version of BlackBerry Enterprise Server on the remote host reportedly contains multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in its image processing library : - An unspecified error within the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service when processing PNG and TIFF images on a web page being viewed on...

Android NFC Bug Could Be First Of Many

Google is working on a fix for a newly discovered vulnerability affecting Nexus S Android phones that could cause applications on the phone to crash using incorrectly formated Near Field Communications NFC transactions. The issue, which will be discussed at an upcoming technical conference on...

Banking Fraud Now Almost Exclusively Occurring Online

A new study of small to mid-sized businesses shows that 75% of banking fraud is now taking place online according to a report from InformationWeek. The 2011 Business Banking Trust Study, commissioned by Guardian Analytics and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, found that 56% of the companies in...

Six ways your phone can be illegally tapped !

Phone tapping in India has become a national concern with a leading operator revealing that at peak there are upto 100 phone tapping requests a day. In India there are ten major operators, at a conservative average of 50 taps a day per operator, there would be 182,000 authorized phone taps each...

Attack Can Extract Crypto Keys From Mobile Device Signals

SAN FRANCISCO–Many carriers and mobile providers are touting smartphones as the future of secure mobile payment systems, enabling users to pay for purchases with an app on their phones, and this already reality in many parts of Asia and Europe. However, researchers have discovered that some of th...

How to Recover iPhone Passwords in Six Minutes

Smartphone security has jumped to the top of the list of concerns for many IT security staffs and one of the main reasons for that is the epidemic of lost and stolen smartphones. Many of those devices have only minimal password protection, and now researchers in Germany have devised a new techniq...

Apple iPhone Browsing

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. An iPhone functions as a video camera, camera phone with text messaging and visual voicemail, a portable media player, and an Internet client with e-mail, Web browsing, and both Wi-Fi and 3G...

CVE-2011-0640

The default configuration of udev on Linux does not warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device HID functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via crafted USB data, as demonstrated by keyboard and mouse data sent by malware on a...

AZL-6516 CVE-2011-0640 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.10.78.1-1

The default configuration of udev on Linux does not warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device HID functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via crafted USB data, as demonstrated by keyboard and mouse data sent by malware on a...

CVE-2011-0639

Apple Mac OS X does not properly warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device HID functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via crafted USB data, as demonstrated by keyboard and mouse data sent by malware on a smartphone that the...

Null pointer dereference

Microsoft Windows does not properly warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device HID functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via crafted USB data, as demonstrated by keyboard and mouse data sent by malware on a smartphone that...

CVE-2011-0638

Microsoft Windows does not properly warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device HID functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via crafted USB data, as demonstrated by keyboard and mouse data sent by malware on a smartphone that...

Hackers learning new ways to hijack smartphones !

How safe is your cell phone? Thieves are coming up with new ways to hijack the most popular smartphones. ABC Action News investigative reporter Michael George enlisted the help of a hacking expert to find out how these programs work, and how to beat them. Droids, iPhones, and BlackBerries are jus...

Researchers Expose Security Flaw in Internet-Ready HDTVs

Researchers at Mocana, a security technology firm in San Francisco, recently demonstrated the ease with which they could hack into a popular Internet-ready HDTV model. They exploited a vulnerability in the software that displays websites on the TV, allowing them to control the information sent to...