March 15, 2011 - According to a wildly-popular video on YouTube, you can take over any video screen, any time. All you need to do is to plug BITcrash44's tiny transmitter into the headphone jack of your iPhone. This transmits a copy of (continue reading...) Read more
March 14, 2011 - A hoax SMS text message claiming that radiation may hit the Philippines, following explosions that have rocked Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, have caused such a problem that authorities in Manila have (continue reading...) Read more
March 12, 2011 - Well folks, one more to go and we have a year of Chet Chats on the feed. My most popular guest, Michael Argast, joined (continue reading...) Read more
March 10, 2011 - Only a couple of days after Google published its Android Market Security Tool - that removes all malicious applications infected with (continue reading...) Read more
March 8, 2011 - Over the weekend Google released the Android Market Security Tool to help clean up devices infected with the DroidDream malware. The Android/DrdDream family of malware used a pair of exploits (Expoit/LVedu and Exploit/DiutesEx) to gain root access on (continue reading...) Read more
March 7, 2011 - Last week there were many headlines in the security press after it was discovered that malicious apps had been found on the official Android Market. The (continue reading...) Read more
March 4, 2011 - For the past several years, we have seen a rapid rise of devices that access the Internet. This has also resulted in rise of various malware that target such devices. One of the most targeted of these devices are our (continue reading...) Read more
March 3, 2011 - The most recent malware attack on the Android Market is already well described in several good write-ups, but I wanted to analyse the samples we received in our collection. The (continue reading...) Read more
March 2, 2011 - During last month’s #SecChat, many issues around mobile security were raised and many open questions still remain unanswered. The discussion brought up some key points on securing mobile devices with more than 35 contributors tweeting over 230 #SecChat hashtag (continue reading...) Read more
March 2, 2011 - We're seeing a growing number of Facebook accounts that appear to have been compromised by spammers, with messages posted claiming that the user has received a free Apple iPad. (continue reading...) Read more
February 28, 2011 - The Zeus (Zbot) crimeware is sold to criminals as a complete toolkit for building custom Trojans, usually to steal banking logins. The Trojans are generally quite complex; injecting HTML into banking websites on the Internet Explorer and Firefox web browsers, (continue reading...) Read more
February 23, 2011 - Microsoft tried to push an update to their newly released Windows Phone 7 this week and accidentally bricked some Samsung-branded handsets. Microsoft has since (continue reading...) Read more
February 22, 2011 - In a recent Twitter #SecChat, we talked about the emerging issues in mobile security and the importance of communicating with employees about the changing nature of how they’re computing at work now with the prolific use of mobile devices. (continue reading...) Read more
February 22, 2011 - I went to the CES conference a few weeks ago and was blown away by the proliferation of new devices and mobile applications that were being announced. Then, last week, I was at the RSA Conference and (continue reading...) Read more
February 22, 2011 - McAfee has started to BETA test our WaveSecure software for Tablets. McAfee WaveSecure Tablet edition delivers comprehensive protection for your Android Tablet, protecting your irreplaceable personal data, and features alarms, location tracking, lock, wipe, backup and data restore – (continue reading...) Read more
February 17, 2011 - Apologies to our readers from me and from Chester Wisniewski - we haven't written anything for Naked Security for the past week or so. That's because we've been off the (continue reading...) Read more
February 17, 2011 - Paul Ducklin of Sophos Australia joined John Metzger and me at this year's RSA Conference to help present at the Sophos booth. Paul and (continue reading...) Read more
February 16, 2011 - Some vendors are calling it HongTouTou, others have named it Adrd, and Sophos (rather unimaginatively in my view!) treats it as a variant of Geinimi, but whatever your anti-virus product chooses (continue reading...) Read more
February 15, 2011 - We have seen quite a few stories about embedding spyware or malware into popular software where careless users can easily download to their PCs. Embedding is a common tactic used to spread malware as it can easily be distributed through (continue reading...) Read more
February 14, 2011 - A Valentine's Day mobile application, which promises to send an romantic MMS message to a loved one, actually hides a money-making scheme that sends expensive messages to a Russian premium rate SMS (continue reading...) Read more