Another Def Con convention down and developers have people talking about this year’s Stagefright.Security company Check Point is publicizing four major Android vulnerabilities that it is dubbing as a package, “Quadrooter,” found in Qualcomm-made chipsets.Snapdragons are estimated to be on about 900 million Android handsets from
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Tim Cook’s defense against the FBI in the now infamous San Bernardino iPhone 5c unlocking case has been as simple as it was reasonable from the get-go. There’s no way to decrypt just one phone without making sure the resulting “backdoor” wouldn’t be used on many other ...
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Chrome is the web browser at the center of Google’s empire – both on desktops as well as mobile devices. In addition to being just a standalone app (which may or may not be preloaded on your smartphone), the Chrome engine also drives the component that displays web content inside apps. As you might expect, a vulnerability in that engine could cause significant problems for the device running it. Such is the case with a particularly troublesome Android Google Chrome exploit.During the recent PacSec conference in Tokyo, Qihoo 360 developer Guang Gong showed off a vulnerability ...
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Chrome is the web browser at the center of Google’s empire – both on desktops as well as mobile devices. In addition to being just a standalone app (which may or may not be preloaded on your smartphone), the Chrome engine also drives the component that displays web content inside apps. As you might expect, a vulnerability in that engine could cause significant problems for the device running it. Such is the case with a particularly troublesome Android Google Chrome exploit.During the recent PacSec conference in Tokyo, Qihoo 360 developer Guang Gong showed off a vulnerability ...
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Remember back in the early days of computing when the general rule of thumb was “only executable files can be malicious?” Sure, if you downloaded some sketchy software from a backwater website you ran the risk of compromising your machine, but non-executable files – things like pictures and music – were generally considered safe. The world’s changed a lot since then, as as operating systems become more complex, even these once-innocuous file types are now emerging as potential agents for mischief themselves. We just shared with you
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None of us “like” out-of-date things. Updates to apps and operating systems bring us new features, improved functionality, better user interfaces, and (most importantly) bug fixes.We all hate bugs, but bugs vary in severity from mildly frustrating to zero-day security holes that can be exploited to do all kinds of nasty stuff. Depending on their type and scope, patches and updates aren’t things that arrive on our smartphones and tablets all that easily. Each bringing its own set of challenges and frustrations.AppsApplications get updated with whatever frequency their ...
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