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Tag Archives: supply chain
Brand new Android smartphones shipped with 146 security flaws
If you think brand new, just-out-of-the-box Android smartphones are immune from security vulnerabilities – think again.
Android users menaced by pre-installed malware
Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone has found a new and concerning route for malware to find its way on to Android devices – malicious apps that have been factory pre-installed.
Bootstrap supply chain attack is another attempt to poison the barrel
Somebody smuggled something bad into the vast third-party, open-source supply chain we all depend upon.
For sale: Gray-market iPhones that yield secrets to encryption
The prototype iPhones are slipping out of Apple’s supply chain with disabled security, to the delight of researchers and jailbreakers.
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.
Apple and Amazon hacked by China? Here’s what to do (even if it’s not true)
Are major US companies really under attack from Chinese “zombie microchips” – and what should we do, whether it’s true or not?
How one man could have hacked every Mac developer (73% of them, anyway)
An inadvertently exposed login key could have spelled cybersecurity disaster for the Homebrew project, beloved of Mac developers everywhere.
2 million lines of source code left exposed by phone company EE
What should be secret AWS and API keys were (un)secured with the default password credentials: “admin” as the name, “admin” for a password.