Smartphone User Fingerprinting on Wireless Traffic

Due to the openness of the wireless medium, smartphone users are susceptible to user privacy attacks, where user privacy information is inferred from encrypted Wi-Fi wireless traffic. Existing attacks are limited to recognizing mobile apps and their actions and cannot infer the smartphone user...

Govt.-Backed Contact-Tracing Apps Raise Privacy Hackles

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is echoing lawmaker concerns that California is not taking privacy seriously enough, as state legislators mull launching a COVID-19 exposure-notification app based on Apple and Google’s smartphone technology. The U.S. nonprofit, which is aimed at protecting...

Defend Yourself Now and in the Future Against Mobile Malware

The world has gone mobile and the US is leading the way. It’s estimated that that the number of smartphone users alone topped 257 million in the States in 2018. That means three-quarters 74% of households now boast at least one mobile device. And in this new digital world, it’s mobile application...

Legal Robot: Missing link to TOTP manual enroll option

While going live with additional 2FA options, a security researcher discovered that during TOTP enrollment, only a barcode was displayed to users, no TOTP manual enroll option with a printed base32 secret was provided for non-smartphone users...

Hundreds of Apps Using Ultrasonic Signals to Silently Track Smartphone Users

Your smartphone may have some apps that are continuously listening inaudible, high-frequency ultrasonic sounds from your surroundings and they know where you go, what you like and dislike — all without your knowledge. Ultrasonic Cross-Device Tracking is a new technology that some marketers and...

Hackers can spy on your calls and track location, using just your phone number

In Brief The famous ‘60 Minutes’ television show shocked some viewers Sunday evening when a team of German hackers demonstrated how they spied on an iPhone used by U.S. Congressman, then recorded his phone calls and tracked his movement through Los Angeles. Hackers leverage a security flaw in SS7...

Crashing Google Email App for Android Just By Sending a Malicious Email

A vulnerability has been discovered in the wildly popular Google’s Stock Android Email App, that could be exploited by malicious attackers to remotely crash your smartphone application just by sending a specially crafted email. A Spain security researcher, Hector Marco, successfully exploited the...

Google and Apple app Store removing all Games with "Flappy" word in Title

After the developer of Flappy Bird pulled the gaming app from both the Apple and Google app stores, it led to the creation of dozens and dozens of Flappy Bird clones that are trying to cash in on the popularity of the original title. Also Security researchers from multiple anti-malware firms have...

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...