Android malware authors have seized an opportunity to infect unsuspecting smartphone users with the launch of the latest addition to the immensely popular “Angry Birds” series of games. SophosLabs recently encountered malware-infected editions of the “Angry Birds Space” game which have been placed in unofficial Android app stores. Please note: The version of “Angry Birds… Read more »

Turns out the password can be easily bypassed: XRY works by first jailbreaking the handset. According to Micro Systemation, no ‘backdoors’ created by Apple used, but instead it makes use of security flaws in the operating system the same way that regular jailbreakers do. Once the iPhone has been jailbroken, the tool then goes on… Read more »

The Android “factory data reset” feature is supposed to remove all private data from a device. But does it? As the IT security company “Hatforce” discovered, it is possible to recover the deleted data on many Android phones. When a phone is sold, the buyer could thus gain access to the private data of the… Read more »

BluetoothLogView is a new utility that monitors the activity of Bluetooth devices in your area, and displays a log of Bluetooth devices on the main window. Every time that a new Bluetooth device arrives to your area and when the device leaves your area, a new log line is added with the following information: Device… Read more »

You’ve probably heard about the stratfor.com hack by now. Anonymous claimed responsibility. Then Anonymous denied being responsible. But then today, “Anonymous” claimed that the earlier anonymously posted pastebin post wasn’t Anonymous, but was really Stratfor employees claiming to be Anonymous. Wait… doesn’t Anonymous claim that “we are all Anonymous”? If that’s true, then maybe it… Read more »

As part of this week’s ‘Get Safe Online’ campaign in the United Kingdom, Trusteer have issued a warning that fraudulent phone calls are increasing in popularity amongst the criminal community to commit ID theft and that everyone needs to be on their guard to avoid falling victim – on or offline. One possible use for… Read more »

A World of Warcraft confession as well as myriad other pieces of digital evidence allowed the Vancouver Island Major Crime Unit and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to solve the murder of Kim Proctor, a Canadian high schooler whose burnt remains were found under a bridge. For cases involving teens, the online world is “more… Read more »

The Trusteer research team recently uncovered a stealth new attack carried out by the SpyEye Trojan that circumvents mobile SMS (short message service) security measures implemented by many banks. Using code we captured while protecting a Rapport user, we discovered a two-step web-based attack that allows fraudsters to change the mobile phone number in a… Read more »

CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is an open source tool that offers a complete forensic environment that is organized to integrate existing software tools as software modules and to provide a friendly graphical interface. The main design objectives of CAINE are to guarantee the following: an interoperable environment that supports the digital investigator during the… Read more »

Bad news: Fraudsters have all the tools they need to effectively turn mobile malware into the biggest customer security problem we’ve ever seen. They are lacking just one thing – customer adoption. The number of users who bank online from their mobile devices is still relatively low. Additionally, transactions are not yet enabled for mobile… Read more »