Security News

Flawed Android backup mechanism can lead to injected malicious apps (Help Net Security)
2015-07-13 12:26

A flaw (CVE-2014-7952) in Android's backup/restore mechanism can be exploited by knowledgeable developers to "respawn" malicious apps on phones, and make them gain top-level access and potentially dan...

Week in review: HackingTeam breach and consequences, and Android games unmasked as phishing tools (Help Net Security)
2015-07-13 05:45

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Hacking Team hacked, 400GB+ of company documents and emails leaked Hacking Team, the (in)famous Italian company that...

Popular Android games unmasked as phishing tools (Help Net Security)
2015-07-09 15:04

ESET researchers have discovered a new, ingenious, yet very simple Facebook phishing scheme: playable Android games that, before they are started, ask users to enter their Facebook credentials. T...

Bug in Android ADB Backup System Can Allow Injection of Malicious Apps (Threatpost)
2015-07-09 13:16

There’s a severe vulnerability in the way that all versions of Android handle the restoration of backups that can allow an attacker to inject a malicious APK file into the backup archive. The bug...