Android’s December security bulletin arrived this week with another decent crop of vulnerabilities to add to the patching list for devices running version 7.0 Nougat to version 9.0 Pie, including Pixel users.
Tag Archives: Mobile
AirDrop an unwanted nude pic and you could face stiff penalties
Sending pics of your bits to strangers could get you a year in jail and/or a $1K fine if this NYC bill gets passed.
‘Iceman’ hacker charged with running drone-smuggling ring from jail
Max Ray Vision says he’s innocent of owning the phone used to orchestrate the scheme and ripping off debit cards to fund the drone purchase.
Prisoners allegedly posed as underage girls in $560K sextortion scam
They allegedly victimized 442 military men by sending nude photos and then calling, pretending to be irate fathers or police.
Driver loses his car to hackers. TWICE.
He slapped a tracker on the new one and installed CCTV… which did a fine job of recording the thieves’ 90-second-long relay attack.
The phone went dark, then $1m was sucked out in SIM-swap crypto-heist
A Silicon Valley exec lost $1m in cryptocoin savings when a 21-year-old allegedly SIM-swapped his phone.
Mobile and IoT attacks – SophosLabs 2019 Threat Report
As internet users migrate from desktop and laptop computers to mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, cybercriminals are too.
Microsoft update breaks Calendar and Mail on Windows 10 phones
Still reeling from last week’s Windows 10 Pro debacle, Microsoft dropped a fresh pile of “Oops!” onto Windows 10 Mobile users.
Does wiping your iPhone count as destroying evidence?
Police say it’s a felony, but a woman arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting says she doesn’t even know how to remotely wipe.
258,000 encrypted IronChat phone messages cracked by police
They expect to cuff hundreds of criminals who used the pricey phones, which were sold with the crypto app preinstalled.