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Tag Archives: Android
BlackBerry takes a pop at privacy-focused Blackphone
There’s a public spat between BlackBerry and Blackphone, the spunky start-up company trying to break into the crowded mobile market with promises of air-tight security. Can BlackBerry survive the competition?
SSCC 156 – Warbiking in Manhattan, hubris for Google, and how less can be more [PODCAST]
Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin are back with this week’s security podcast, turning plain old news into advice you can use.
No login links in emails, please! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Got a minute to spare? Watch this week’s 60 Second Security…
Google’s Android security chief: Don’t bother with anti-virus. Is he serious?
Google’s chief security engineer for Android, Adrian Ludwig, claims that most users shouldn’t bother with anti-virus and that security companies are overstating the problem of Android malware. Can he be serious? …
SSCC 154: Fraud, viruses, patches and encryption (in that order!) [PODCAST]
Where does your country sit on the fraud list? Just how much can you trust SMSes on Android? Is Apple serious enough about iOS security? And will Google’s End-To-End email encryption plugin save the world? Find out with Chet and Duck in this week’s Chet Chat podcast…
Coinbase wallet app in SSL/TLS SNAFU, joins the insecure mobile banking club
The popular Bitcoin wallet Coinbase has a crucial security flaw in its Android apps which could allow an attacker to steal authentication codes and access users’ accounts, according to a security researcher. Coinbase is far from alone in leaving its wallet app users vulnerable, so what should you do to stay safe when using mobile banking apps?
Anatomy of a buffer overflow – Google’s “KeyStore” security module for Android
Here’s a cautionary tale about a bug, courtesy of IBM. Not that IBM had the bug, just to be clear: Google had the bug, and IBM researchers spotted it.
Anatomy of an Android SMS virus – watch out for text messages, even from your friends!
Paul Ducklin looks into “Andr/SlfMite-A”, an Android SMS virus. The malware sends itself to your top 20 contacts and foists an third party app for an alternative Android software market onto your device… 
“Towelroot” app makes it easy to root Galaxy S5 and other locked Androids…
Galaxy S5 users will be cheering. System administrators are probably groaning. Paul Ducklin looks at an Android-era variant of Hamlet’s dilemma: “To root or not to root, that is the question.”