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Travel smart: Tips for staying secure on the road

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May

2015

Whether you’re taking a personal holiday or a business trip, traveling by car or by plane, planning a quick jaunt or preparing for an extended stay, make sure your security best practices are coming along for the ride. Cybercriminals don’t take vacations. In fact, they feast on tourists and travelers, taking advantage of people when […]

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Android’s reset function fails to delete data from Samsung and HTC smartphones

25

May

2015

The built-in factory reset on #android smartphones is so poorly implemented on some popular models it should never be relied on to erase sensitive #data, the Asset Disposal & Information #security Alliance (ADISA) has warned after performing a forensic analysis of a range of current end-of-life handsets. Authored by ADISA founder Steve Mellings and Professor […]

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Shoddy Android Factory Reset Exposes Private Data, Encryption Keys

25

May

2015

The churn of #android devices, whether older smartphones being traded in or sold online, makes device sanitization imperative. The native feature in the OS, however, may not be doing as thorough a job as advertised. A paper, “#security Analysis of Android Factory Resets” (pdf), published by Ross Anderson and Laurent Simon of the University of […]

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