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Facebook logins aren’t being properly protected on iPhones, iPads and Android devices

05

Apr

2012

It’s not really news to discover that developers who write games for Apple devices running iOS – namely the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch – have tended to save unencrypted user settings in plain text.The idea of somebody tinkering with those text files is worrisome to those who fret about cheating in iPhone or iPad […]

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Google Wallet PINs easily stolen from rooted devices

10

Feb

2012

Joshua Rubin, a security engineer with zvelo, disclosed his research into the (in)security of Google Wallet. Google Wallet is a new near field communication (NFC) electronic wallet that allows customers to pay for everyday purchases by entering a PIN on their Android smartphone and tapping it on a receiver, similar to Mastercard PayPass.What Rubin discovered […]

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Cracking Open Your (Google) Wallet

10

Feb

2012

We suggested earlier that instead of going after the Secure Element chip and the information it keeps safe, attackers would go after the weaker point of the Google Wallet app. Security researcher Joshua Rubin has now created a proof-of-concept app, Google Wallet Cracker, that can recover the Google Wallet PIN on a rooted phone.Once attackers […]

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