New Android Malware Variant Can Remotely Root Phone

A new version of Android malware has been tweaked so it doesn’t require user interaction for an attacker to own the device, according to research published by Lookout Mobile Security yesterday. An updated variant of the Legacy Native LeNa malware utilizes the GingerBreak exploit to gain root...

DKFBootKit - First Android BootKit Malware

DKFBootKit - First Android BootKit Malware NQ Mobile Security Research Center has recently uncovered a new malware DKFBootKit. This malware is identified when monitoring and analyzing the evolution of earlier DroidKungFu variants. What sets DKFBootKit apart from malware like DroidDream, is that...

Attackers Go After SIM Cards in Bank Fraud Scams

Attackers are using a some new schemes that combine old phishing tactics with some newer techniques in order to steal or disable the SIM cards in victims’ mobile phones and then take them over for use in bank fraud transactions. Mobile phones have become high-value targets for attackers in many...

RSA 2012: Mobile, Cloud, and Intelligent Control

It was good to catch up with our customers and partners at RSA 2012 this week. Much of the buzz this year was around mobile devices and securing the cloud. We were glad to see innovative organizations introducing compliance-validated architectures based on these emerging technologies. One such...

ClubHack Sec Conference 2011 - Hacking your Android

Document Title: =============== ClubHack Sec Conference 2011 - Hacking your Android References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/459.wmv View: http://www.clubhack.tv/2011/hacking-your-droid-aditya-gupta/ Release Date: ============= 2012-02-27 Vulnerability...

ClubHack Sec Conference 2011 - Hacking your Android

Document Title: =============== ClubHack Sec Conference 2011 - Hacking your Android References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/459.wmv View: http://www.clubhack.tv/2011/hacking-your-droid-aditya-gupta/ Release Date: ============= 2012-02-27 Vulnerability...

Call for Paper - DEF CON Rajasthan March 2012 Meet

Call for Paper - DEF CON Rajasthan March 2012 Meet DEF CON Rajasthan - March 2012 Jaipur Meet, Call For Papers is now officially Open and will close on March 10, 2012. DEF CON Rajasthan DC91141 is a DEF CON Registered group of people interested in exploring technology and it implications in...

Researchers Dump Trove of 0Days For Popular Android Applications

Researchers in China published a trove of information on previously unknown zero day vulnerabilities in popular applications for Google’s Android mobile operating system on Wednesday, including mobile browsers and at least one mobile wallet application. The vulnerabilities were found in a wide...

Best Free Android Security Software Avast Antivirus

Best Free Android Security Software Avast Antivirus For you who longing for free Android antivirus, this is an exciting THN news for you. Avast, one of the famous antivirus vendors, now has launched Android Antivirus you can use for free! This Antivirus mobile is named Avast Mobile Security. Avas...

Android Application Allows Remote Access – No Permissions Required

Mobile security researchers at the firm Viaforensics say they have created a malicious mobile application that requires the phone user to grant no permissions during installation, but could give remote attackers the ability to install and execute malicious code on mobile devices running the Andro...

Mobile Madness

Admit it. It would scarcely break your heart if the legions of slack-jawed smartphone Facebook and FourSquare gawkers were forced to confront their own digital mortality – however briefly – with a few scary exploits made just for them. In 2011, the untethered among us saw several mobile security...

Twitter Snaps Up Mobile Security Firm WhisperSystems

Micro blogging site Twitter has acquired Whispersystems, a maker of mobile security software, according to a statement posted on the WhisperSystems Web site. The Bay Area startup notified its users of the acquisition in a blog post on Monday, saying that Whisper would be integrating its technolog...

National program for Cyber army to be launched in India

National program for Cyber army to be launched in India Increasing attacks on cyberspace in India has brought several professionals and experts from the Industry, in support with the Government of India to jointly form a national level program to identify credible and valuable information securit...

DEF-CON Chennai 4 (DC602028) Call for Paper [January Meet]

DEF-CON Chennai 4 DC602028 Call for Paper January Meet The DC602028 aka DEF-CON Chennai Group is a group located at Chennai in India. The DC group was created on December 2010 from then DEF-CON Chennai had been the platform for Internet and Mobile security.DEF-CON Chennai is for everyone,we don't...

China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps

China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps Mobile malware is rising, and there have been explosions in the world of viruses and Trojans. Virus makers are now targeting mobile platforms- thanks to their growing popularity. If we take the statistics from last 6 months, the chances ...

Call for Articles - The Hacker News Magazine | December Edition

Call for Articles - The Hacker News Magazine | December Edition THN Magazine is a free monthly magazine designed to spread awareness and knowledge about cyber security. Our goal is to provide the most up-to-date information on a wide variety of topics that relate to hackers and security experts...

NoScript Anywhere Released, Supports Firefox Mobile on Android Devices

The new version of NoScript, the popular browser add-on that blocks JavaScript and other embedded objects from running on Web pages, is out in alpha form and it can now run on Android-based smartphones, giving users protection against script-based attacks on their mobile devices. The release of...

Firm Claims To Break Blackberry Device Password

Research in Motion’s phones are considered the premiere maker of enterprise-grade mobile devices. But now a Russian firm says that a forensics tool it developed can reliably crack strong passwords used to secure the company’s BlackBerry phones. Elcomsoft, a computer forensics software maker, said...

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...

QR Tags Can Hide Malicious Links, Experts Warn

QR tags have become the next big thing in interactive marketing. But as smart phone users flock to the trendy, postage-stamp sized bar codes, researchers are warning that they could be used to hijack mobile phones by directing them to malicious Web pages. In a post on the mobile security blog...