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Credit to Author: John Ribeiro| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 03:09:00 -0800

Two senators have written to the U.S. Department of Defense about reports that President Donald Trump may still be using an old unsecured Android phone, including to communicate through his Twitter account.

“While it is important for the President to have the ability to communicate electronically, it is equally important that he does so in a manner that is secure and that ensures the preservation of presidential records,” Tom Carper, a Democrat from Delaware, and Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Missouri, wrote in the letter, which was made public Monday.

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February 10, 2017 admin Home Tech, Mobile & Wireless, Mobile Security, Personal Technology, Security, Wireless Networking

Credit to Author: DealPost Team| Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:04:00 -0800

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WhatsApp reduces spam, despite end-to-end encryption

February 1, 2017 admin Data Privacy, Mobile & Wireless, Mobile Apps, Security

Can a spam filter work even without reading the content of your messages?

WhatsApp thinks so. Since last April, the messenger app has been successfully fighting spam abuse, even as it’s been using end-to-end encryption.

That encryption means that no one — not even WhatsApp — can read the content of your messages, except for the recipient.

More privacy, however, can raise issues about spam detection. If WhatsApp can’t scan your messages for suspicious content, say for advertisements peddling cheap Viagra, then how can it effectively filter them out?

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Mobile security firm offers cash to hackers for their old exploits

February 1, 2017 admin Android, Apple iOS, Malware & Vulnerabilities, Mobile & Wireless, Security

Mobile security firm Zimperium has launched an exploit acquisition program that aims to bring undisclosed attack code for already patched vulnerabilities out in the open.

Paying for old exploits might seem like a waste of money, but there are technical and business arguments to justify such an acquisition system and they ultimately have to do with the difference between exploits and vulnerabilities.

A vulnerability is a software defect with potential security implications, while an exploit is the actual code that takes advantage of that bug to achieve a specific malicious goal, often by bypassing other security barriers along the way.

In practice, many vulnerabilities that get reported to vendors are not accompanied by working exploits. Showing that a programming error can lead to memory corruption is typically enough for the vendor to understand its potential implications — for example, arbitrary code execution.

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Report: Trump still uses his unsecured Android phone to tweet

January 26, 2017 admin Government IT, Mobile & Wireless, Security

President Trump is still tweeting from his old Android phone in the White House, even after being given a new, secure device just before his inauguration, according to a report in The New York Times.

That revelation stirred some strong negative reactions from three mobile security analysts contacted on Thursday. Two of those analysts said using the older Android device only for tweeting doesn’t necessarily pose a national security risk, but they questioned what else he might be doing with that Android device that could pose such risks.

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January 25, 2017 admin Data Privacy, encryption, internet, IT Industry, Mobile & Wireless, Mobile Security, Network Security, Networking, Security, Wireless Networking

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Google pushed developers to fix security flaws in 275K Android apps

January 25, 2017 admin Android, Mobile & Wireless, Mobile Apps, Security

Over the past two years, Google has pressured developers to patch security issues in more than 275,000 Android apps hosted on its official app store. In many cases this was done under the threat of blocking future updates to the insecure apps.

Since 2014, Google has been scanning apps published on Google Play for known vulnerabilities as part of its App Security Improvement (ASI) program. Whenever a known security issue is found in an application, the developer receives an alert via email and through the Google Play Developer Console.

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