Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2014
Security experts at BitDefender demonstrated how is possible to access data exchanged between a smartwatch and a smartphone via Bluetooth. The paradigm of Internet of Things is influencing modern society and the way it approaches the technology in everyday life. An impressive amount of Intelligent devices surround us, but often we ignore the repercussion in term of security and privacy. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2014
The number of Pre-loaded mobile trojan in the wild is increasing, DeathRing is the last one discovered by the experts at Lookout firm. It’s not first the time that Android handsets come preloaded with malware, but cyber security experts are warning of a worrying increase of the cases. The problem is widespread in Asia and Africa, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2014
Indian researchers have discovered a flaw in WhatsApp that allows anyone to remotely crash the popular mobile app by sending a specially crafted message. A “nice” vulnerability has been discovered in the popular messaging app WhatsApp that could be exploited by an attacker to remotely crash the mobile app just by sending a specially crafted message. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2014
Twitter announced app graph, it will now track every mobile app its users have Installed on their smartphones and tables.  Privacy advocates arise. Twitter announced the implementation of the “app graph” function that will allow the company to provide “more personal Twitter experience” by serving targeted advertisements by serving targeted advertisements. This means that also Twitter, like […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2014
Security experts at Zimperium discovered a new MITM attack technique dubbed DoubleDirect that is targeting iOS, Android and Mac users worldwide. DoubleDirect is the name of a new Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack discovered by security researchers that is targeting mobile devices running either iOS or Android and potentially Mac OS X systems. The DoubleDirect MitM attack allows attackers to hijack the victimâs traffic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2014
WhatsApp implemented the encryption by default on Android OS with the collaboration of the Open Whisper company. Soon it will be extended to other platforms. Many time security community has discussed about security of the popular messaging application WhatsApp, early 2014 experts at Praetorian discovered different security issues in the way WhatApp implements SSL, the principal one is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2014
Unknowns have hacked the NFC based electronic payment system used in Chile, the “Tarjeta BIP!”, spreading an Android hack that allows users to re-charge cards for free In Chile NFC electronic payment is already a reality, “Tarjeta BIP!” is the name of the payment system used to pay for public transportation with users’ smartphones that support the standard. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2014
Two researchers at Fortinet have demonstrated during the last Black Hat Europe conference how to hide a malicious Android APK in images. Mobile devices are continuously under attacks, cyber criminals are improving their technique to attack mobile users and increase the profits. Â AÂ new technique recently disclosed, allows attackers to hide encrypted malicious Android applications inside […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2014
Researcher explains that vulnerable code re-use of zero-day in Android’s CyanogenMod exposes million users to Man-In-The-Middle attacks. Security experts always discourage jailbreaking and rooting of mobile devices due to the risk related to the installation of not authorized applications that could hide malware and serious bugs. At the Ruxcon Security Conference in Australia, an unnamed security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2014
A team of German researchers developed an innovative Android app dubbed DREBIN capable of detecting 94 percent of mobile malware. A team of German researchers composed by Daniel Arp, Konrad Rieck, Malte Hubner, Michael Spreitzenbarth of Siemens computer emergency response team and Hugo Gascon of the University of Gottingen have developed an Android app capable […]
