Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2016
This week it was discovered that the Tesco Android Bank app won’t run with the Orbot privacy tool installed on the user’s mobile device. I always highlighted the importance of censorship and internet monitoring, architectures like the Tor network are much more than evil tools in the hands of crooks, but probably someone has a different opinion. Tesco Bank […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
The day has come, Sharp and Philips smart TV running the Android TV OS could be infected by a ransomware dubbed FLocker ransomware. When a journalist asked me which is a possible evolution of ransomware I had no doubt, the Internet of Things. I was thinking of ransomware that infects medical devices and Smart objects in our homes. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2016
Malware researchers are warning Android’s latest permission-granting model in version 6.0 Marshmallow is now been targeted by Mobile malware authors. Android’s latest permission-granting model in version 6.0 Marshmallow is now been targeted by Mobile malware authors. The model will let users grant permissions only when it is required by the app, rather be accepting all […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2016
Daniel Kaufman announced that Google is planning to make password identifications outmoded by 2017 and replace them with trust scores. Google wants to replace traditional passwords on Android with “trust scores,” and it is planning to do it by 2017. The announcement was officialized at the Google I/O conference, the IT giant intends to use Google’s Trust API technology developed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2016
The popular security expert John McAfee and a team of four hackers demonstrated that is is possible to read WhatsApp message. The cybersecurity expert John McAfee and four hackers demonstrated that is is possible to read a WhatsApp message even if it is encrypted. The hacker crew used their servers located in a remote section […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2016
The Japanese Mobile carrier NTT Docomo announced that its mobile devices will allow authorities to covertly track the locations of the users. The Japanese Mobile carrier NTT Docomo announced that five of its new smartphone models will allow authorities to track the locations without users being aware of it. Today, users are alerted when the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2016
Processors manufactured by the Chinese ARM maker Allwinner are affected by a kernel backdoor and are present is several models of low-cost devices. In the security community is circulating the news about the presence of a backdoor in the gadgets shipped by the popular Chinese ARM maker Allwinner. Processors manufactured by the company are present […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2016
Mandiant – FireEye has disclosed the details of a serious information disclosure vulnerability affecting one of the Qualcomm software package widely used. Security researchers from the Mandiant firm have discovered a “high severity” vulnerability in the Qualcomm tethering controller (CVE-2016-2060) that could be exploited by a malicious application to access user information. Recently Google released an Android update that addresses […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2016
Patches for 40 high and medium severity vulnerabilities have been included in Google’s May 2016 security update for the Android operating system. Patches for 40 vulnerabilities have been included in Google’s May 2016 security update for the Android operating system. Many high and medium severity vulnerabilities, in addition to one low severity vulnerability, are patched […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2016
Blue Coat spotted a new ransomware-based campaign serving the Dogspectus malware. Crooks combined a Hacking Team exploit and the Towelroot exploit. Security experts at Blue Coat have spotted a new campaign spreading an Android Ransomware dubbed Dogspectus. The malicious code hijacks mobile advertisements to scam gift cards, it locks the device in a state that allows only […]
