Qualcomm chipsets used in 900 million Android phones are vulnerable to four new types of attack, a security vendor announced Sunday. At the DEF CON hacker conference Sunday, Check Point unveiled four vulnerabilities that could give an attacker the highest level of control over a phone, often called “root.” Read More
Google just announced a new version of Android, Lollipop 5.1, which it says includes some “tasty additions” along with improved stability. One of the major new features, called Device Protection, fulfills a pledge Google made to the law enforcement group Secure Our Smartphones last year to add a kill #switch to Android devices. Device Protection lets you […]
The thing about infrastructure is that everyone uses it. If it’s secure, it’s secure for everyone. And if it’s insecure, it’s insecure for everyone. This forces some hard policy choices. When I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden documents, the one top-secret program the NSA desperately did not want us to expose was […]
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