Tag: android
What To Do When Your Phone Gets Hacked
Elise Ackerman Forbes What To Do When Your Phone Gets Hacked … My friend Mike’s Android phone had been acting strangely for awhile. In the middle of the night, the phone would come alive. It would meander down various menu paths, send texts that were gibberish and start playing poker. Was it bug in [...]
Twitter Hires iOS, Android Hacker Charlie Miller
Meilssa TheDroidGuy.com Twitter recently added a new recruit to its security team. Charlie Miller, a popular figure among hackers, broke the news via his Twitter account, saying, “Monday I start on the security team at Twitter. Looking forward to working with a great team there!” Unfortunately, Miller says in an interview with both CNET [...]
Security Alert: New Android Fake Gmail Malware “DDSpy” Steals Your Privacy
NQ Mobile NQ Mobile’s Security Research Center recently uncovered new Android malware—DDSpy—which disguises itself as Gmail and runs silently in the background, stealing your personal data. If you’re infected with this malicious application, you won’t see an icon for it. Instead, it will hide in your app list and wait for instructions from [...]
Android Smartphone Hackers Building Malware in Russia
Antone Gonsalves CSO The malware business growing around Google Android — now the leading smartphone operating system — is still in its infancy. Today, many of the apps built to steal money from Android users originate from Russia and China, so criminal gangs there have become cyber-trailblazers. Sophos and Symantec on Wednesday released their [...]
Android Malware Posing as ‘Angry Birds Space’
Matthew Hawkins Technolog @ MSNBC Android smartphone users and “Angry Birds” fans need to watch out for more than crafty pigs — there’s malware going around that targets Android users by posing as Rovio’s hit game “Angry Birds Space,” warnsSophosLabs. The infected version can be found in unofficial app stores and uses an Android Trojan [...]
Hacked Sites Spread Malware to Android Smartphones
Suzanne Choney Technolog @ MSNBC Android phone users should be on guard for new malware that can spread to the phone from mobile websites. Meanwhile, a fresh batch of malicious apps has surfaced in the Google Play store. ”This appears to be the first time that compromised websites have been used to distribute malware [...]
Anti – Android Network Toolkit and 7″ Tablet make a $99 Pentesting Platform
D. Dieterle Cyber Arms Every once in a while you run into a product that just makes you sit back and say – “Wow!” I just picked up a 7″ Polaroid tablet for $99 and was stunned at how good it works. The screen quality, how smooth it ran and how responsive it was. [...]
