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A court in Brazil has ordered the mobile phone operators on Wednesday to block the WhatsApp messaging application throughout the country for 48 hours. A Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered telecommunications providers to block all access to the WhatsApp phone messaging application for 48 hours throughout Brazil, Latin America’s largest country, the Folha de S.Paulo […]
Short Read: China is working on developing its own smartphone for government officials to avoid snooping from the enemy side. China, one of the world’s largest smartphone markets, has started working on its own smartphones. The smartphones which will have everything developed domestically, even the operating system. The upcoming smartphone will be made in China […]
Short Bytes: The researchers at NYU have revealed a way of attacking electronic devices by accelerating the aging of electronic chips. The paper titled “MAGIC: Malicious Aging in Circuits/Cores” describes the effects of the MAGIC attack on a smartphone, that could result in the failure of your device. The performance of an IC degrades over […]
The risk of remote hacking is triggered through the faults in the media processing components that may be misused by malicious websites. Experts have identified some major flaws in the way media files are handled by Android which may eventually trap its users by automatically visiting malicious sites. A report by Zimperium (a cyber-security company) […]
The Ghost Push malware comes with those Android apps that are available at non-Google app stores. The newly discovered Android malware dubbed as Ghost Push Malware has the capability of compromising a massive number of new devices (more than 600,000) on a daily basis. The malware has been detected by a famous Android developer Cheetah Mobile. The same company is […]
Get Mark Zuckerberg Displayed simply by typing @[4:0] as a Facebook Comment — This isn’t a hacking related issue so no need to be on high alert! A post has currently been circulating on Facebook that says by entering @[4:0] as a comment you can check whether your Facebook profile has been hacked or not. According to this post, if the […]
The LG Update Center Application faces yet another threat of cyber attack as was discovered by SEARCH-LAB Ltd in November 2014. A loophole exists where the center’s SSL certificate lacks verification hence creating a loophole for man-in-the-middle attack on the connection between applications and the LG website (www.lgcpm.com). This gap then exposes LG handset users […]
Last week we reported hackers are developing Android malware every 17 seconds, making it one of the most vulnerable OS ever. Now a spoofed copy of the popular app named as “BatteryBot Pro” requested unnecessary permissions from the user during installation in an attempt to get full control over the user’s Android device, a researcher […]
For all of you who want to know what currently Google is planning to work on, the answer is “Project Fi”— Now what is it really? What really it has to offer? How it will internet lives? Let’s try to investigate on all your million-dollar questions! Well, Google is planning to be your phone’s carrier […]
Sesame Enable is the world’s first touch-free smartphone that will allow users (especially disabled) to use without even using their finger. Just imagine the experience; you taking pictures, making a call or playing a game through gestures, that is, the nod of your head. The smartphone has specifically been designed for mobility impaired users. Sesame […]
Search-Lab Ltd. discovered a serious security vulnerability in the On Screen Phone protocol used by LG Smart Phones. A malicious attacker is able to bypass the authentication phase of the network communication, and thus establish a connection to the On Screen Phone application without the owner’s knowledge or consent. Once connected, the attacker could have […]