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...

Call for Papers from DefCon Chennai (DC602028)

Call for Papers from DefCon ChennaiDC602028 Background: We are the Official DEF-CON Chennai Group DC602028 The Event is taking place on 11th September 2011 at a resort in ECR Road Chennai,India. We will be having a Private conference room for the meet. Regarding Paper Submission We require...

Call for Papers from DefCon Chennai (DC602028)

Call for Papers from DefCon Chennai DC602028 Background: We are the Official DEF-CON Chennai Group DC602028 The Event is taking place on 11th September 2011 at a resort in ECR Road Chennai,India. We will be having a Private conference room for the meet. Regarding Paper Submission We require...

Securing Mobile Devices May Be an Impossible Task

LAS VEGAS–The way that things are right now in mobile security, there does not look to be much hope for keeping corporate and personal data secure. A panel of researchers who focus on looking for attacks and bugs at various levels of the mobile device and infrastructure said at Black Hat that the...

CA security finds Android Trojan which records phone calls

CA security finds Android Trojan which records phone calls A new Android Trojan is capable of recording phone conversations, according to a CA security researcher. The trojan is triggered when the Android device places or receives a phone call. It saves the audio file and related information to t...

Apple, Google Need Mobile Security Rethink

Threatpost interviews Mickey Boodaei, the CEO of Trusteer, about the state of mobile device security. Mobile security issues have been getting more press recently – on Threatpost and elsewhere. Partially, this is because they’re new, and because mobile devices are proliferating both at home and i...

DroidDream Returns, Dozens of Apps Pulled From Android Market

Researchers have identified a second large batch of apps in the Android Market that have been infected with the DroidDream malware, estimating that upwards of 30,000 users have downloaded at least one of the more than 30 infected apps. Google has removed the apps from the market. There are at lea...

Expert: Malicious Mobile App Fears Overblown

“It’s the code, stupid!” At least that’s what application security expert Andy Chou observes about go-go world of mobile devices. In this interview with Threatpost’s Paul Roberts, recorded at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, Chou said that mobile device software vendors face many of...

Google Throws App Kill Switch On DroidDream

Google has announced plans to implement new security features in order to strengthen the defenses of the Android Market following the appearance of a Trojan horse, DroidDream, targeting devices running the company’s Android mobile operating system. In a post on Google’s official Android blog, Ric...

DroidDream: Our Wake-Up Call For Mobile Security

Security researchers today pulled more than 20 apps in the Official Android Market after they were found to have been infected with the DroidDream malware. Analysis of the DroidDream malware suggests that it can gather sensitive data like a mobile device’s IMEI International Mobile Equipment...

iTunes Users Complain Of Account Hacks

More than six months after reports of wide-scale compromises of accounts at Apple’s popular iTunes online store, there are fresh reports that suggest that the accounts of iTunes users are being used to make fraudulent purchases of music, games and other merchandise. Reports in the Apple forums...

Mobile Zeus Variants Target Windows Mobile, Symbian Phones

There are two new versions of the Zeus malware making the rounds right now, both of which target popular mobile phone platforms. One of the variants targets Windows Mobile devices, while the other is going after the Symbian platform, and both are intent on silently stealing data from infected...

New Android Trojan Surfaces in China

Lookout Mobile Security discovered a new Android based Trojan called HongTouTou aka ADRD Trojan that is packaging itself in popular Android apps and delivering itself through app markets and Chinese forums. This piece of malware is requesting additional permissions from users and may also be...

Experts Agree: No Easy Fix For Mobile Security

SAN FRANCISCO — Mobile phones, tablet PCs and other new technologies are poised to take over the workplace, but organizations that hope to secure them before they do so face an uphill battle, according to a symposium on mobile security. Experts at the half day mobile security event on Monday warn...

Report : A global shift in cybercrime !!

The target of attacks has shifted from traditional infrastructure to mobile users and endpoint devices, according to a new report. Research from SpiderLabs found that malicious tools became more customized, automated and persistent in 2010. This trend combined with the popularity of mobile device...

Cybersecurity Experts Create Program That Steals Text Messages !

Two cybersecurity researchers have just taught smartphones a lesson by developing a program that can eavesdrop and steal text messages from any phone on a GSM network – all in about 20 seconds. The Guardian reported that Karsten Nohl and Sylvain Munaut spent a year honing their technology, which...