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This weekend brought us a panic about Samsung TVs listening to every word people say in their presence. A little reporting showed that to… Read more »
The Android Security Modules (ASM) framework, proposed by U.S. and German researchers, would make it easier to install security modules on Android devices without the need for rooting or firmware updates… Read more »
A newly discovered flaw in ARM’s TrustZone could lead to unlocked bootloaders for more Android phones, but it’s also a worrying exploit. Read more »
Sensory is already powering the core speech recognition features in may Android phones. Now it wants to combine that technology with facial recognition to create a more secure and more flexible… Read more »
The device’s release will be a test case both for bundling privacy-centric tools in a user-friendly way, and for carving out a niche in the modern mobile platform wars. Read more »
Glenn Greenwald’s new book, No Place to Hide, details how the NSA uses interception tools on US-made servers that are shipped outside of the states. Read more »
The company is considering putting iris-scanning sensors into the Galaxy S5, which will appear in March or April. Read more »
Germany’s Der Spiegel has published details of some of the techniques used by the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations unit, which allows the agency to perform targeted, aggressive hacking. Read more »
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have demonstrated an attack that can reveal the PIN codes for sensitive apps, such as those for banking, by tapping into the device’s microphone and… Read more »
At a security conference a scary demonstration showed that a single line of HTML code can remotely wipe out a Samsung Galaxy S III handset. Worse: It appears to work on… Read more »