New Android Exploit Could Force Factory Reset remotely

Clicking one wrong link can cause malicious code to execute, which could do anything from infecting your computer with malware to, apparently, wiping your phone data completely. At the Ekoparty security conference, researcher Ravi Borganokar demonstrated at the Ekoparty security conference in...

QR codes - Next way for Android Malware

Once a user scans the QR code, the code redirects them to a site that will install a Trojan on their Android smart phones. Kaspersky's SecureList blog has a report of a malicious QR code on a web site which when scanned directs the user to a URL; the linked site doesn't have a file matching the...

Погружение в матрицу: анализ структуры и методы распознавания QR-кода

В современном мире информация может представляться в самых причудливых формах. Причины на это могут быть разные и не всегда имеют стеганографическую подоплеку. У «человека разумного» буквально появился «третий глаз»: мобильный телефон стал неотъемлемым атрибутом каждого из нас. А что именно с его...

QRcode Perl CGI & PHP script vulnerable to denial of service attack

Overview QRcode Perl CGI & PHP script, a QR code image generation tool, contains a vulnerability that may cause excessive consumption of server resources. Upon a specific request, resources of a server could be excessively comsumed until the server becomes unable to respond to requests from...

Website connection problem when a mobile phone terminal uses specific QR code

Overview Mobile phone terminals supporting the two-dimensional code QR code read function are reported to have a website connection problem. When specific QR code is read, even if a user tries to connect to the URL string in the first line of the two URL lines displayed, the connection is...