Blog Posts Tagged with "Android"
Steps Toward Weaponizing the Android Platform
May 13, 2013 Added by:Kyle Young
In this article I will be covering ways that one can turn their Android based device into a powerful pocket sized penetration testing tool.
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UC Davis Uncovers Security Holes in Mobile Apps
April 16, 2013 Added by:InfosecIsland News
Popular texting, messaging and microblog apps developed for the Android smartphone have security flaws that could expose private information or allow forged fraudulent messages to be posted, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis.
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Android Phones in China Hit by Most Costly Malware in History
February 01, 2013 Added by:Dan Dieterle
China may be the source for a lot of international cyber attacks and malware, but they get hit by it too. 620,000 Android phones in China were infected with a nasty virus that collects personal information and begins to send costly text messages to benefit the malware maker...
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Lack of Security in Android Apps? That Could Be
December 02, 2012 Added by:Keith Mendoza
Have you ever installed an app in your Android phone and when you got to the permission screen you just couldn't justify to yourself why an app would require the permissions it's asking for?
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New Mobile Security App for Android Smartphones
September 27, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
As more online retailers introduce mobile e-commerce applications, criminal hackers are taking notice. Existing mobile operating systems are under attack and, like standard PC operating systems, they sometimes fail to provide the necessary security to support a payment application...
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Recovering tmpfs from Linux and Android Memory Captures with Volatility
August 14, 2012 Added by:Andrew Case
Tmpfs is interesting from a forensics perspective for a few reasons. The first is that, in a traditional forensics scenario, the investigator expects that he can shut a computer off, images its disk(s), and get back the filesystem at the time of when the computer was running. With tmpfs, this is obviously not true...
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Five Security Tips for Android Phones and Tablets
July 31, 2012 Added by:Nicholas Cifranic
Android app stores such as Google Play have little or no security implementation, so anyone with a developer account may publish applications. Although Google has been attempting to enforce more controls to detect malicious apps, hackers are still publishing malware disguised as popular applications...
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MMarketPay.A Android Malware Found in the Wild
July 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Researchers have discovered a new malware strain targeting Android devices that is designed to make unauthorized purchases from infected units. The malware has been detected as being spread by at least nine different application markets and may have infected as many as one-hundred thousand users...
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Researchers Unveil Advanced Malware Detection Method
June 29, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Unlike traditional malware detection tools, RiskRanker does not rely on malware samples and signatures already identified. It is able to identify applications that exhibit signs of malicious code while they are still in the marketplace, before the malware is downloaded onto potential victim's mobile devices...
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ZitMo Trojan Lurks in Android Security Suite Premium App
June 19, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"One of the remote server domains was registered using the same fake data which was used for registering ZeuS C&Cs back in 2011. And the malware’s functionality is almost the same as in old ZitMo samples. Therefore ‘Android Security Suite Premium’ = New ZitMo"...
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Malware Targeting Android Devices Increases Sharply
May 17, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The number of malicious Android application package files (APKs) received in Q1 2011 and in Q1 2012 reveals... an increase from 139 to 3063 counts... attributed to malware authors crafting their infected or trojanized applications to defeat anti-virus signature detection..."
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Top 5 Things Learned at the SANS Mobile Device Security Summit
March 19, 2012 Added by:Tom Eston
Having a lineup of great speakers really made the summit flow as well as it did. What I liked most about this event was that there were plenty of “real world” talks on how enterprises are setting up and managing mobile deployments…real “in the trenches” types of talks...
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Applications vs. the Web: Enemy or Friend?
March 16, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
A minimum of two languages on the server side (PHP, SQL) and three on the client side (Javascript, HTML, CSS) turns developers into frequent searchers for answers on the Internet driving up the frequency of software defects relative to a single language development platform...
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CyLab Researchers Release Free Smartphone Security App
March 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"SafeSlinger provides you with the confidence that the person you are communicating with is actually the person they have represented themselves to be... SafeSlinger provides secure communications and file transfer even if the servers involved are tainted with malware..."
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The Jester's QR-Code Pwns Targets with WebKit Exploit
March 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The operation was intended to snare unsuspecting targets previously aggregated in a database. Those who scanned the QR-Code were then cross-referenced with known targets, and those targets were subsequently pwned, having their address books, texts and emails exfiltrated...
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Adobe Releases Critical Updates for Flash Player Vulnerability
March 06, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Adobe has released critical updates for Android, Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems to mitigate vulnerabilities in the company's Flash Player software that may have allowed attackers to inflict a denial of service or take control of a targeted system...
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