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Android Antivirus Passes 2.5 Million Downloads
Published on 11 Aug, 2010 at 11:10 in Cloud | Viewed 244 times | No Comments
A free anti-virus app for the Android smartphone has surpassed 2.5 million downloads last week. DroidSecurity’s ad-supported antivirus free app is now one of the 50 most popular apps in the Android marketplace, even though the Android has experienced few virus issues yet.
Dror Shalev, CTO and co-founder of DroidSecurity, said the new anti-virus app only has 200 signatures mostly of spyware and phishing campaigns. The company also provides text-messaging…
DMCA Changes Allow Jailbreaking
Published on 28 Jul, 2010 at 9:30 in Cyber | Viewed 62 times | No Comments
A new change to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) will now keep users who jailbreak their iPhones or other mobile devices from worrying about the threat of prosecution. An additional change allows will provide further protections for security researchers.
According to the Library of Congress’s Patent Office, which oversees the DMCA and conducts regular reviews,…
Pre-Infected Samsung Smartphones Distributed
Published on 4 Jun, 2010 at 10:57 in Cloud | Viewed 114 times | No Comments
Another cellphone manufacturer has fallen victim to an increasingly common attack in which phones’ memory cards are infected with malware during the manufacturing process and then shipped out to customers.
Kaspersky researchers said the latest manufacturer to be affected is Samsung, which has acknowledged that the microSD cards in a batch of its S8500 Wave mobile phones sold in Germany were infected with an autorun…
FBI Cyber Head: Smartphones are a Source of Vulnerability
Published on 4 Jun, 2010 at 9:06 in Cloud | Viewed 214 times | No Comments
Smartphones and applications for them are becoming increasingly prevalent, with companies issuing smartphones to employees and some employees even developing apps to help them in their work. As much as the smartphone has helped move business forward, it has also lead to another vulnerability channel.
“Mobile phones are a huge source of vulnerability,” Gordon Snow, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division, told the Wall…
Hacking Contest Offers $100,000 for Smartphone Hacks
Published on 17 Feb, 2010 at 14:57 in Cloud | Viewed 440 times | No Comments
An annual hacking contest that has broken security on both pcs and macs is now offering a $100,000 prize for smartphone and browser hacks. The Pwn2Own competition will offer various cash prizes for carrying out various exploits on different mobile phone systems including the iPhone, Blackberry and Android.
In an announcement of the rules this year, ZDI’s Aaron Portnoy wrote “The increased presence and capabilities of smart phones…
