Android flaw executed typed text

Monday, November 10th, 2008

With the news that Google's Android shipped with an embarrassing security hole being followed by a simple two-step method to 'jailbreak' the OS, you'd think that the company had ironed out most of the remaining bugs – but you'd be wrong. According to ZDnet's Ed Burnette, the open-source Linux-based smartphone platform ...

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Off to Scotland

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Creating backups of the websites and databases, packing up the laptops, yanking the hard drives out of the desktops and storing everything offsite just in case.  I'll be back from Scotland on the 30th and should have plenty of pictures to post. See ya.. Troy

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Massive iPhone Security Flaw Exposes All Private Data

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

You're a smart, safety conscious iPhone user, right? You keep the phone set to require a 4-digit passcode every time it wakes up, so if you ever lose your baby, all your personal information is safe. But if you are running v2.0.2 of the iPhone operating system, you might as ...

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New Gpcode (encryption) ransomware speading via botnet

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

There are confirmed reports on a new version of the Gpcode ransomware being spread via a botnet.According to Vitaly Kamluk of Kaspersky Lab (my employer), the Trojan encrypts files on an infected machine (AES-256) and leaves a text file named crypted.txt with a ransom note demanding $10 to decrypt the ...

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Keyczar – Google’s crypto for non-cryptographers

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Google has released Keyczar, billed as a "Toolkit for safe and simple cryptography", under an Apache 2.0 open source licence. Keyczar has been developed by members of the Google security team and aims to make cryptography more accessible to application developers.Keyczar's design goals were to manage the complexity of cryptography ...

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