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Malicious QR Codes Pushing Android Malware

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Sep

2011

According to Wikipedia QR code is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) first designed for the automotive industry. QR codes are becoming more and more popular today and are used in banners, magazines, transport and badges in order to provide quick and easy access to particular information. A QR code has a pretty […]

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Google Wallet – why you shouldn’t throw away your wallet just yet

20

Sep

2011

Google has announced, to some fanfare, what it hopes will be a revolution in the way we pay for things: Google Wallet. Google Wallet is a smartphone app (currently only available for the Nexus S 4G Android phone) that aims to replace your credit cards. It works like this. You go to a store (let’s […]

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Transitive trust and SSL certificate verification

13

Sep

2011

On April 11, 2011, the Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat UnitSM (CTU) posted a blog entry titled ‘Certificate Authorities for SSL/TLS: Crypto’s weak link‘[1], which discussed some of the strains of the current Certificate Authority (CA) system for validating web site identity. The backdrop to this blog entry was the breach of Comodo [2] and their resulting […]

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