Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2019
Facebook announced it would stop Huawei from pre-installing social networking apps on its smartphones to comply with US sanctions. Facebook announced it will no longer allow pre-installation of its social networking apps on Huawei smartphones to comply with the US ban on the Chinese tech giant. “We are reviewing the Commerce Department’s final rule and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2019
Snapchat internal staff has allegedly abused their role in the company to spy on Snapchat users using and internal tools and steal data. Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app that makes pictures, videos, and messages (snaps) available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients. Initially, it was only allowing person-to-person photo sharing, but now […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
The Reuters agency revealed in exclusive that Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the telco giant. The news a bomb, Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the Chinese telco giant. In November, The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government is urging its allies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2019
Twitter confirmed revealed that a bug in its iOS app it the root cause for an inadvertent collection of location data and sharing it with a third-party. A new story of a violation of the user’s privacy made the lines, Twitter revealed that due to a bug is collected and shared iOS location data with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
The popular French white hat hacker Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y) discovered how to brick all Samsung mobile phones. French white hat hacker Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y) discovered how to brick all Samsung mobile phones. Baptiste bought a Samsung mobile phone a few months ago and decided to analyze it. After a few hours of tests, he discovered an unprotected receiver in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice charged nine individuals connected to a hacking crew focused on identity theft and SIM swapping attacks. The U.S. DoJ announced charges against nine individuals, 6 members of a hacking group known as ‘The Community’ and 3 former employees of mobile phone providers. The latter group helped the hackers to steal roughly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2019
Android May 2019 Patches address critical vulnerabilities in the Google operating system, including 4 remote code execution flaws. Google released May 2019 patches address 8 critical flaws in Google operating system, including 4 remote code execution vulnerabilities. Google is not aware of attacks in the wild exploiting these flaws. According to the advisory released by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2019
Researchers devised a new side-channel attack in Qualcomm technology, widely used by most Android smartphones, that could expose private keys. Researchers have uncovered a new side-channel attack that could be exploited by attackers to extract sensitive data from Qualcomm secure keystore, including private keys, and passwords. The attack potentially impacts most of the modern Android […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2019
Threat Group Exploits Chrome Bug to Serve Malicious Ads to iOS Users Threat actors tracked as eGobbler developed a new exploit that is allowing them to serve more than 500 million malicious ads to iOS users. The group tracked as eGobbler is exploiting a security flaw in the Google Chrome browser to target millions of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2019
Security experts at Trend Micro spotted a new variant of the XLoader Trojan that is targeting Android devices by posing as a security application. Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the XLoader Trojan that is targeting Android devices by posing as a security application, the malware also attempts to infect Apple devices (iPhones and […]
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