Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2016
Experts from Checkpoint have found four major vulnerabilities dubbed Quadrooter in Qualcomm chips that expose more than 900M Android users to hack. Security experts from the security firm Checkpoint have found four major vulnerabilities, dubbed Quadrooter, in the firmware running on the in the Qualcomm chips that equip modern Android devices. The Quadrooter flaws could be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2016
Google has launched a new Google API working together with Dashlane, to stop using passwords for Android users and improving the user experience. It is true that Android security apps work wonder and also Google has been trying to use fewer passwords or none whatsoever, making it harder for someone to penetrate the privacy of its users. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2016
The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the popular hacker Andrew âBunnieâ Huang designed Introspection Engine, an interesting anti-surveillance device. While the number of mobile devices is outclassing the number of desktop ones, the concern about the surveillance activities conducted by governments is growing as never before also thanks the Snowden revelations. Mobile devices, often unprotected, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2016
Security researchers from Symantec have discovered a new variant of the Android.Fakebank.B banking trojan that prevents users from calling banks. Security experts from Symantec have spotted a new strain of mobile Trojan dubbed Android.Fakebank.B that prevents users from making outgoing calls to banks from their mobile devices. Android.Fakebank.B was first spotted in October 2013, it was able to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2016
Millions of Xiaomi smartphone are affected by a critical remote code execution flaw that could be exploited by hackers to take over the mobile devices. Millions of Xiaomi mobile are vulnerable to remote hacking due to a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that could be exploited by hackers to take over the mobile devices. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2016
ProofPoint have found in the wild a backdoored version of the popular Pokemon GO Android App that could allow attackers to gain control over victim’s device The gamers are going crazy for the last Nintendo game Pokemon GO which uses augmented reality , the mobile app is used by players to walk around and collect […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2016
Chinese Ad company Yingmob âs developers are allegedly responsible for the infection of approximately 10 million Android devices. Chinese Ad company Yingmobâs developers are allegedly responsible for the infection of approximately 10 million Android devices which is reportedly generating an income of around $300,000 USD per month. CheckPoint, the security company famous for their network […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2016
The Android full-disk encryption can be easily cracked with a brute force attack, hundreds of millions of Android mobile are at risk. Bad news for Android users that want to protect their data by enabling full-disk encryption (FDE) on their mobile devices. The Android full-disk encryption can be easily cracked with a brute force attack, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2016
Experts from Cheetah Mobile firm revealed that the Hummer Android malware has already infected millions of smartphones worldwide. Security experts from the Cheetah Mobile firm are monitoring an Android malware dubbed Hummer since August 2014. The researchers noticed a significant increase in the number of infections in 2016, with a daily average of 1.4 million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2016
Apple confirms iOS 10 kernel code left unencrypted intentionally to improve OS performance and ensures that it will have no impact on security. The news is intriguing, while Apple announced the new release of its mobile operating system, the iOS 10, the experts discovered that its kernel is unencrypted. The researchers from MIT Technology who reviewed […]
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