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Avast Releases Simplocker Removal Tool

18

Jun

2014

Avast announced today the availability of Ransomware Removal, an app designed to clean Android devices of Simplocker Trojan, as well as to unlock files affected by the threat. The tool is available for free on Google Play, where the description says that it can remove Cryptolocker/Simplocker threats from the device and decrypt the data encrypted […]

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Geohot’s Towelroot Based on Linux Vulnerability

18

Jun

2014

Geohot’s newly released app for rooting Android devices, Towelroot, leverages a Linux vulnerability in the futex subsystem. Identified as CVE-2014-3153, the security flaw affects the Linux kernel through 3.14.5 and allows administrator privilege through a FUTEX_REQUEUE command. Linux has been patched against this issue, but vulnerable versions are powering many Android devices on the market, […]

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Remembering Danger Incorporated

04

Jun

2014

The ubiquitousness of iPhones and Android devices can make it easy to forget they were predated by gadgets like the Hiptop. Over at Medium, former Danger Incorporated employee Chris DeSalvo writes about the circumstances that led to the birth of the Hiptop, which is better known as the Sidekick in the US. He also goes into […]

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