Collaborate Disseminate
Historically, the subject of our January teardown has been a piece of high-tech holiday lighting from the clearance rack; after all, they can usually be picked up for pocket change once the trucks full of Valentine’s Day merchandise start pulling up around the back of your local Big Box retailer. …read more
Vending machines used to be a pretty simple affair: you put some coins in, and food or drink that in all likelihood isn’t fit for human consumption comes out. But like everything else today, they are becoming increasingly complex Internet connected devices. Forget fishing around for pocket change; the Coke machine at the mall more often than not has a credit card terminal and a 30 inch touch screen display to better facilitate dispensing cans of chilled sugar water. Of course, increased complexity almost always goes hand in hand with increased vulnerability.
So when [Matteo Pisani] recently came across a …read more
Millions of computers and servers that are used to develop, test and analyze Android applications were put at risk by vulnerabilities in widely used development tools. The flaws were discovered by researchers from Check Point Software Technologies and … Continue reading Flaws in Development Tools Expose Android App Makers to Attacks
Finally, here we have a vulnerability that targets Android developers and reverse engineers, instead of app users.
Security researchers have discovered an easily-exploitable vulnerability in Android application developer tools, both downloadable and c… Continue reading Critical Flaw in Major Android Tools Targets Developers and Reverse Engineers
A proof of concept attack developed by researchers target users of the development platforms for Android and Java. Continue reading Developers Targeted in ‘ParseDroid’ PoC Attack