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Canada mulls warrantless internet info-gathering powers for police

Aug

2011

Yesterday, I wrote up my take on the recent Australian bomb-hoax story, in which a suspect was tracked from Sydney to Kentucky through a mixture of old-fashioned detective legwork and cyberinvestigation. I suggested that making this sort of investigation as easy as it seems on crass TV cop shows would be a bad idea: There […]

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Love Trap Android Malware Found in Third-Party App Stores

Aug

2011

We recently found Android malware that comes off as a variety of applications in a China-based 3rd party app store. The samples we were able to acquire come as a love test application, an ebook reader, and a location tracker. It is immediately noticeable that the said apps do more than they are supposed to, […]

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Calling Android Smartphone Zombies

Jun

2011

Android Smartphones are under attack again by rogue applications that once installed are reading information from the phone and sending it back to a pre-assigned location. According to mobile security firm Lookout, as many as 120,000 users may have been infected from a cafeteria selection of at least two dozen applications from the Android Market. […]

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