Is “Private number” really private? Apparently not. This week, the AVG MobilationT research team found a new PUP (Potential Unwanted Program) named ‘441 Israel’ targeting Israeli users. After our Security research team reported this to Google, it suspended the developer and removed the application. The finding and analysis was done with the help of an […]
Last week researchers found vulnerabilities in the Google Wallet payment system. The first vulnerability was found by Zvelo, which required root access. Rooting devices has become just short of trivial at this point with the avaibility of “one-click root” applications for most platforms. The vulnerability was leveraged to display the current PIN number. The very […]
Stefan Viehbock, an independent security researcher, published a paper on Boxing Day titled “Brute forcing Wi-Fi Protected Setup” to his WordPress blog disclosing a weakness in the configuration of most consumer/SoHo Wi-Fi routers. As we all know the state of security for most home Wi-Fi networks was nearly non-existent only a few years ago. This […]
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