Security was one of three major benefits flagged up by Google when it first announced) Chrome OS (alongside speed and spimplicity), so it’s not surprising that security researchers have been putting it through its paces.
Now a few months after the first Chromebook was released, a pair of hack happy academics have demonstrated how to crack open Chrome OS security onstage at the Black Hat conference. Read on for details on what on what they showed and what Google had to say about it…
Symantec seems intent on stoking up a flame war with a new 23-page report comparing the security measures in iOS and Android. Apple came out top in most categories but there’s not an entirely rosey picture for either OS with malware developers setting their sights on mobile.
To complicate matters, the report reveals that iOS contains many more vulnerabilities than Android despite having suffered no known malware attacks. It seems the main strength of iPhone security is the level of curation it applies to the iTunes App Store…
The threat to our mobile existence, or at least in the case of Android, is on the rise. At least according to a report from Norton, makers of Norton Anti-virus.
The company believes Android is an attractive target because of the following pre-requisites: “it’s open, ubiquitous and monetizable”. The Android malware threat will be experienced in several ways: premium billing rates, spyware, search engine poisoning, adware and pay-per installs.
Play.com has revealed that it has suffered an email breach in an email sent out to customers late last night. The breach was not through Play.com itself but via an unnamed marketing communications company which exposed customers names and email addresses…
We’re told all the time that we’re living in a digital age and yet we’re surrounded by out of date, clunky systems. In a new series, Electricpig will be looking at the worst offenders to our digital sensibilities. First up: airports.
How often have you lost your ticket; been without Wi-fi and charging points while you wait for your delayed flight; hauled your luggage off and on three shuttle buses just to get to the check-in desk, and then been faced with in flight entertainment screens that look like they’re borrowed from the Short Circuit set? The answer? Too often. Read on for what we’d do to fix airports.
Apple doesn’t take iPad and MobileMe security seriously enough according to a leading US cyber-security expert. John Bumgarner, CTO at the security research think-tank, the US Cyber Consequences Unit, spoke to Electricpig about Apple, MobileMe, the iPad and iTunes and wasn’t at all complimentary. Read on to find out why he believes MobileMe and iTunes are almost open goals for hackers…
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Android security flaws that allow malicious folk to fling apps onto phones without the user’s knowledge have been revealed. A study of HTC phones found that the integrated web browser can install software packages without the user being aware of it. That’s to allow HTC to automatically update the Flash Lite plug-in but also gives a way in for bad guys too.
Facebook security has been given a welcome overhaul with a set of clever new features to battle the legions of keyloggers and malware makers throwing themselves against the social network’s defenses. We’ve not always been that complimentary about Facebook (see last week’s Facebook iPhone app brouhaha) but this time we have to say we’re impressed. Read on for details of the new Facebook security measures…
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