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Firmware Secretly Sent Text, Call Data On Android Users To China

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Nov

2016

Several Android smartphone models sold in the US, including via major online retailers like Amazon and BestBuy, had firmware in them that surreptitiously collected and sent detailed personally identifiable information on users and devices to a server based in China. An employee working for DARPA-funded security firm Kryptowire stumbled upon the issue when using a […]

Category Mobile security Written by Darkreading 0 Comments

The FBI demands a key to your backdoor

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Oct

2016

The FBI has demanded that all new homes built starting this year have a rear entrance with a special lock. The homeowner will have the key… but so will the FBI. They state that homeowners can be confident of this key not getting stolen or copied by nefarious criminals. Wait – what? Is this true? […]

Category Privacy protection Written by Csoonline 0 Comments

Beware of monitoring apps

18

Oct

2016

Speaking for us mobile researchers, we sometimes classify apps in order to warn users of its presence because of its potential harm, but leave it up to the users’ discretion to remove. This is the case when it comes to a subcategory of PUPs called monitors. Monitoring apps are those that can be great tools […]

Category Application security Mobile security Written by Blog 0 Comments

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