A few short items today. First, Lastpass, one of the two password managers that I like (the other is Keepass) has been hit with three different security bugs in the last couple of weeks. This is due to the fact that Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy has put Lastpass in his sights. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those Google G-Suite (AKA Google Apps and Google Apps for Work) users, Google has released a new option for managing iPhones and iPads. What is great about it is that it does NOT require installing an agent on the phone or pad. Google calls it the Basic Mobile Management option for iOS and it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First the good news – you have to have physical control of the iPhone in order to make this hack work. Now the bad news – there is more than one YouTube video describing how to do it. Too bad the FBI didn’t see the videos before they tried to get Apple to unlock the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When is a hack not a hack? When an Israeli company sells it as a feature. The company, NSO Group, sells the software, to governments among others. The software allows the attacker to: Control the camera Listen to the microphone Track the phone’s location Intercept text messages Intercept emails Download the calendar data Download your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Jonathan Zdziarski wrote about an implementation challenge for the security conscious among us. While Whatsapp does delete the message when you tell it to, it leaves artifacts behind. Whatsapp and other phone apps use the SQLLite database. SQLLite, likely to reduce wear in your phone’s memory, doesn’t actually delete the message, but rather just marks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About a year ago, Android users were fighting something called the Stagefright bug. Buried deep in the bowels of the operating system was a series of bugs that would allow an attacker to send you a specially crafted text message and take over your Android phone. Stagefright affected close to a billion phones in the […]
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