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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple was granted a patent last month that allowed someone to shut down photo and video recording on all nearby iPhones – say if you were photographing the police or a concert. The patent uses an infrared signal that would be received by appropriately equipped iPhones to disable the camera. Think about who might like […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]American Banker is reporting that banks are not terribly happy with their customer’s adoption (or not) of Apple Pay. This probably has less to do with anything that Apple did or did not do, but rather with the fact that people don’t deal with change very well. While 84% of the banks reported they were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is a lot of ink (digital ink that is) being spilled on the topic of ad supported content. The basic theory is that ad supported content allows you the reader to get a lot of content without having to shell out cash. Notice that I didn’t say the content is free. It is not. […]
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