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Adware on Mobile Devices an Evolving Privacy Threat

14

Feb

2012

Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) are often legitimate software that pose a risk to users’ privacy or systems. A reasonably secure–or privacy-minded–user may want to be informed of the presence of certain PUPs and in some cases remove them. One very common type of PUP is adware, which exists to make revenue through advertising. Some adware […]

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Cracking Open Your (Google) Wallet

10

Feb

2012

We suggested earlier that instead of going after the Secure Element chip and the information it keeps safe, attackers would go after the weaker point of the Google Wallet app. Security researcher Joshua Rubin has now created a proof-of-concept app, Google Wallet Cracker, that can recover the Google Wallet PIN on a rooted phone.Once attackers […]

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Security 101: Attack Vectors Take Advantage of User Interaction

09

Feb

2012

Welcome back to Security 101. Our New Year’s recess is over, and it’s time to offer another lesson. So far we have discussed vulnerabilities and some types of low-interaction attack vectors. In this lesson we shall continue with attack vectors that require medium or high levels of user interaction to succeed.These attack vectors are more […]

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