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Older Phones Might Have SIM Card Weakness
A german security researcher has revealed that as many as 750 million cellphones may be vulnerable to to hacking via their SIM card if it’s encrypted with DES (Data Encryption Standard) originally coded in the 1970s. Through studies on approximately 1000 sim chips and phones, Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs demonstrated the ability to fool
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Android App Flaws Revealed
Lest you think Facebook is the only security punching bag getting a beating lately, two significant flaws in the Android application platform have been revealed by overseas security teams. Without going into the gory details, each team has found a different way to create a trojanized APK (the file format in which Android apps are
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Add Hacked Femtocells to the List of Security Risks
Depending on where you live or work, you’ve probably experienced problems with cellphone coverage for one or more carriers, usually due to your geographical (lack of) proximity to a cell tower, or courtesy of construction materials like concrete, lead and steel in between you and your signal. Thanks to the advent of widely available broadband,
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Government Agency Overreacts to Malware Threat
I often encourage my clients to be paranoid about security, but never to the point of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, which is exactly what the Economic Development Agency did two years ago when responding to a report that some of its computers were infected with malware. Due to a mixture of clerical error,
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Facebook Graph Search Has Arrived
Back in January of this year, I wrote about Facebook’s impending Graph Search feature (“Facebook Graph Search Cutting Bait for Phishers“) which was set to greatly improve its existing feeble search engine as well as outrage privacy watchdogs. Based upon the feedback the developers received from the small test group to which it was originally
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Facebook Has Another Facepalm Security Incident
Remember last week when I reported on a “small” privacy blunder committed by Facebook and their data portability app? Security software maker Symantec announced over the weekend that they noticed Facebook’s Android app behaving inappropriately, to the tune of uploading the phone number of the device to Facebook’s servers the first time the app is
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