Hosting malicious applications in third-party Android market places is already leveraged by cybercriminals, but an evolutionary step could mean targeting app servers and base transceiver stations (BTS), a security researcher says.A base transceiver station is designed to carry out communication between the user device and the mobile operator’s network. Third-party app hosting locations are riddled […]
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By Eric Auchard VIENNA (Reuters) – Security researchers have revealed two separate threats this week they say could put up to 90 percent of the worlds 2 billion plus smartphones at risk of password theft, stolen data and in some cases let hackers take full control of devices. One vulnerability involves flaws in the way […]
By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – USB devices such as mice, keyboards and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer researcher revealed on Thursday. Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin’s SR Labs, noted that hackers could load […]
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