• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-29-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on How to protect yourself from the Stagefright security flaw

Stagefright is very likely the worst vulnerability to hit the Android ecosystem. All someone needs is your phone number in order to send a malicious MMS message that compromises your device. Even worse, the attacker can erase the message so […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-29-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Maliciously crafted MKV video files can crash Android phones

A malicious application or Web page could be used to crash Android devices, in some cases persistently, due to a vulnerability in a multimedia processing component.The announcement, by security researchers from Trend Micro, comes days after other Android media processing […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-29-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Maliciously crafted MKV video files can crash Android phones

A malicious application or Web page could be used to crash Android devices, in some cases persistently, due to a vulnerability in a multimedia processing component.The announcement, by security researchers from Trend Micro, comes days after other Android media processing […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-29-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Russian hackers use Twitter to mask sneaky data theft

A group of suspected Russian hackers are using Twitter in a clever way to mask their data-stealing malware, according to computer security firm FireEye.Hackers have long used social networking services for relaying commands to their malware. But FireEye says this […]