August 9, 2016
Via: The HillQualcomm chipsets used in 900 million Android phones are vulnerable to four new types of attack, a security vendor announced Sunday. At the DEF CON hacker conference Sunday, Check Point unveiled four vulnerabilities that could give an attacker the highest […]
March 11, 2015
Via: mobile-securityGoogle just announced a new version of Android, Lollipop 5.1, which it says includes some “tasty additions” along with improved stability. One of the major new features, called Device Protection, fulfills a pledge Google made to the law enforcement group Secure […]
March 2, 2015
Via: privacy-protectionIF YOU OWN an iPhone or Android handset and care about your privacy, there’s no longer much of an excuse not to encrypt every conversation you have. Now a free, zero-learning-curve app exists for both text and voice that can […]
March 2, 2015
Via: hackerThe thing about infrastructure is that everyone uses it. If it’s secure, it’s secure for everyone. And if it’s insecure, it’s insecure for everyone. This forces some hard policy choices. When I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden […]
January 14, 2015
Via: threats-and-malwareA #security researcher has discovered a serious #bug in the WebView component of #android 4.3 and below that could open up #phones to malicious hackers. But Google is doing nothing about it. The bug, discovered by Tod Beardsley from Rapid, […]
April 17, 2024