UCR Today: Android Hacking// UC Riverside assistant professor is among group that develops novel method to attack apps on Android, and likely other, operating systems By Sean Nealon on August 20, 2014 illustration of smart phones and skull… Read More ›
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Hey, Glasshole: That cool app? It has turned you into a SPY DRONE
Google Glass spyware can use users as surveillance drones By John Leyden Security researchers have created prototype Google Glass spyware that is capable of snooping on everything the user is looking at without tipping off victims that anything is amiss…. Read More ›
Facebook app now reads your smartphone’s text messages? THE TRUTH
Blame Android, says social network By John Leyden Posted in Security, 29th January 2014 00:11 GMT Facebook’s updated Android app can read text messages on the user’s smartphone. The tweaked software now demands access to SMS and MMS messages, and the change was… Read More ›
Death of global web: Internet will end in 2014 – Kaspersky Lab
Collage: Voice of Russia The Internet as a global network may cease to exist in 2014, giving way to dozens of national webs with limited access to foreign web resources, Alexander Gostev, an expert at the Kaspersky Laboratory, told reporters…. Read More ›
App could allow troops to call in airstrikes
Oct. 18, 2013 | Laura Major of Draper Laboratory holds an Android device with the airstrike app open. (Draper Laboratory) Written by Stephen Losey In the near future, troops on the battlefield could call in airstrikes not with a radio… Read More ›
Hey, you know Android apps can ‘access ALL’ of your Google account?
One-click login hands over keys to Gmail, Google Drive et al, says researcher By Bill Ray Posted in Security, 6th August 2013 13:03 GMT The single-click Google account login for Android apps is a little too convenient for… Read More ›
Your phone may not be spying on you now – BUT it soon will be
Smash it with a hammer now, it’s the only way to be sure By John Leyden Posted in Security, 24th April 2013 10:04 GMT Free whitepaper – Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement Infosec 2013 Tibetan political… Read More ›
Researcher hacks aircraft controls with Android smartphone
This may give the TSA some ideas By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Security, 11th April 2013 01:12 GMT Free whitepaper – EMA advanced performance analytics report A presentation at the Hack In The Box security summit in… Read More ›
DOCOMO launches real-time phone translation
TechnologyOct. 23, 2012 – 06:50AM JST( 5 ) TOKYO — Japan’s biggest mobile operator said Monday it will launch a translation service that lets people chat over the phone in several different languages. The application for NTT DOCOMO subscribers will… Read More ›
Could your phone be secretly taking pictures right now? How hackers could hijack your camera to spy on you (and even read your chequebook)
Proof of concept ‘PlaiceRaider’ Android app can turn on your phone’s camera to allow hackers to snoop around your home Personal data and private moments can be gleaned from images By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED:03:54 EST, 1 October 2012| UPDATED:04:29 EST,… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 