The four mainstream Android phone manufacturers the BootLoader in the presence of multiple flaws vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

University of California, Santa Barbara 9 the researchers found that the four mainstream chip manufacturers of the Android bootloader component the presence of multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can lead to the phone chain of trust during the boot process is compromised, so that the...

ID-theft suspects arrested by Detectives !

A nearly nine-month investigation by Santa Barbara County Sheriff's detectives has led to the arrest of a former UCSB student as a suspected identity thief who bilked at least five victims out of at least $158,000. Imoukhuede Ohiwerei Ehimika, 26, of Nigeria was arrested Dec. 21 at his home in th...

Botnet hijack: Researchers dissect Torpig malware operation

Security researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have broken into the nerve center of the Torpig botnet also called Sinowal or Mebroot to find a ten-day stash of 10,000 bank accounts and credit card numbers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. During the botnet hijack .pdf, the...