Cellular Privacy, SS7 Security Shattered at 31C3

The recently concluded Chaos Communications Congress 31c3 in Hamburg, Germany was an all-out assault on cellular call privacy and security. Of particular interest was the SS7 protocol used to route calls between switching centers. Researchers, doing parallel research as it turns out, found gaping...

Ekahau Real-Time Location Tracking System weak encryption

It's possible to read and generate messages...

Xsser Trojan Spies on Jailbroken iOS Devices in Hong Kong

An iOS version of an Android espionage Trojan targeting activists and protestors in Hong Kong has been discovered on the command and control server hosting the Android malware. The iOS version, a mobile remote access Trojan dubbed Xsser by Lacoon Mobile Security, affects only jailbroken iOS...

How a Cell Phone User Can be Secretly Tracked Across the Globe

Since we are living in an era of Mass surveillance conducted by Government as well as private sector industries, and with the boom in surveillance technology, we should be much worried about our privacy. According to the companies that create surveillance solutions for law enforcement and...

Study: Uyghur Remain in Crosshairs of Targeted Attacks

It’s no secret that activists groups supporting the Uyghur and other ethnic minorities living either in exile or in oppressed nations have been in the crosshairs of targeted attacks for years. Regimes use phishing emails, other social engineering tactics, and drive-by downloads to infect computer...

Kaspersky, Citizen Lab Uncover HackingTeam Mobile Malware

Controversial spyware commercially developed by Italy’s HackingTeam and sold to governments and law enforcement for the purpose of surveillance, has a global command and control infrastructure and for the first time, security experts have insight into how its mobile malware components work...

Google Play App Permissions Privacy, Security Concerns

Google’s revamped app permissions for Google Play are not being well received by Android users. Reddit threads are rife with adjectives such as “stupid” and “dangerous,” primarily because Google’s attempt to simplify permissions granted to automatically updated applications may in fact expose use...

CO-TRAVELER : NSA’s Cellphone Location Tracking Tool gathering 5 Billion records a day

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NSA: Steve Jobs is the real Big Brother and iPhone buyers are zombies

As we reported yesterday that, your Smartphone is a goldmine for the US National Security Agency NSA, they have the full access to your Data available on your Smartphones including Android, iPhone and Blackberry. But among other Smartphones, iPhone apparently is the most popular with the National...

Malware Arsenal Targets Tibetan Activists

Tibetan activists in China as well as those living in exile around the world are being targeted by dangerous malware that not only steals data from infected computers, but also has graduated to reporting location data from mobile devices for surveillance purposes. In addition, a grassroots campai...

How To: Chrome Browser Privacy Settings

youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY9hbsfEbaw The Web browser is the primary portal through which the vast majority of connected users access and interact with the Internet. Each browser has its own security and privacy settings and those settings have an enormous impact on the nature of the...

Defence develop Software that can track people on Social media

A multinational security firm 'Raytheon' has secretly developed software called 'RIOT', capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future Behavior by mining data from social networking websites. The multi billion dollar company, didn't want its concept video revealed, but the Guardian...

Android Play Market 3.9.16 with a Built-In Malware Scanner

AndroidPolice reports that Google is actively working on a built-in malware scanner for the Play Store. A new version of the Play Store app has been released and it is starting to roll out to Android owners. Google Play Store 3.9.16 includes the ability to remove apps from the All Apps list. Ther...

Most Smartphone Users Consider Privacy When Vetting Apps

Cellphone owners now account for 88 percent of the U.S. population, of which some 43 percent say they download applications on their phones. Among these ‘app users,’ 57 percent told the Pew Internet and American Life Project that they have either uninstalled existing applications or made the...

Wireless Security Auditing: Fern Wifi Cracker

Fern Wifi Cracker is a Wireless security auditing and attack software program written using the Python Programming Language and the Python Qt GUI library , the program is able to crack and recover WEP/WPA/WPS keys and also run other network based attacks on wireless or ethernet based networks Fer...

Sen. Franken Demands Answers From Carrier IQ on Mobile Tracking

The fallout from the controversy surrounding the presence of Carrier IQ’s software on millions of mobile devices on several different platforms has now reached Washington. Sen. Al Franken on Thursday sent a letter to the company, demanding answers to a series of questions about the software and i...

Latest Security Flaw in Skype Enables IP address & Location Tracking

Latest Security Flaw in Skype Enables IP address & Location Tracking The serious breach in the widely-used, internet video chat program means that any evil computer nerd could easily hunt down users' whereabouts, according to a study co-authored by an NYU-Poly professor. The flaw in Skype could...

Blowback: Microsoft, OnStar Pump the Brakes on Location Tracking

Redmond, Washington software giant, Microsoft, and Detroit based GM subsidiary, OnStar backtracked on policies widely seen as egregious privacy violations following lawsuits and public outcry. Here’s the news: Windows Phone Update Requires User Consent For Tracking Microsoft released their “Mango...

Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Microsoft of Illegal Geotagging

UPDATE: A class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington, accuses Microsoft Corp. of collecting geolocation information from photos taken with phones running its Windows Phone 7 operating system, even without the user’s consent. The suit, filed by one Rebecca Cousineau, ...

Senators Press Google, Apple Execs on Privacy and Location Tracking

In a hearing on Tuesday about the amount of data that mobile device manufacturers, app developers and others collect about users’ location and activities, senators called on Apple, Google and other companies to be more open and clear with consumers about their data-collection and tracking...