Offensive Research Continuing to Advance

MIAMI BEACH–It’s the accepted wisdom these days that many of the traditional security defenses organizations depend on just aren’t effective at deterring attackers. But this glosses over the fact that the last few years have included some major advances in defensive technologies, including the...

HTC Working on a Fix for Data Leak Problem

Officials at mobile handset maker HTC said they are working on a patch to fix a problem with many of its Android devices that enables any app with Internet permissions to access a large cache of user and device data that a proprietary tool called HTCLoggers collects. The company said on Monday th...

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...

Threats Go Mobile

Smartphone adoption has exploded in recent years, and this has not been lost on the attackers who are looking for the best way to separate users from their money and confidential data. There were several examples of attackers sneaking malicious applications into mobile app stores, some disguised ...