Symantec Releases List Of Android Apps With Malware – Geeky gadgets

Geeky gadgets Symantec Releases List Of Android Apps With MalwareGeeky gadgetsBy Glenn Santos on Friday 27th January 2012 11:26 pm in Android Security software vendor Symantec has released a report indicating that some applications on the Android Market carried a malware. Symantec said that 13 applications from three developers …and more » “android security” – Google [...]


NSA Releases Security Enhanced Android Using SE Linux – Infoboom

NSA Releases Security Enhanced Android Using SE LinuxInfoboomSandboxing and isolating the kernel is just one way the NSA enhanced Android security. Android has had issues keeping its apps' permissions in line, as previously mentioned. SE Android leverages the standard Linux discretionary access control (DAC), …and more » “android security” – Google News


NSA Releases Secure Android Version – InformationWeek

ExtremeTech NSA Releases Secure Android VersionInformationWeekSE Android aims to close Android's security gaps by isolating apps from one another, mitigating problems with flawed or malicious apps, instituting permission and other security checks, restricting use of system facilities by apps, and taking related …NSA releases security-enhanced AndroidThe HSE Android released: Build your own NSA-approved Android device [...]


NSA releases security-enhanced Android – The H

ExtremeTech NSA releases security-enhanced AndroidThe HSEAndroid is the name of both a project to identify, and find solutions for, critical gaps in Android security and of a reference implementation of a security enhanced Android. The project is currently focusing its efforts on enabling SELinux …SE Android released: Build your own NSA-approved Android device todayExtremeTechall 2 [...]


LulzSec Releases Arizona Law Enforcement Data, Claims Retaliation For Immigration Law (Alexia Tsotsis/TechCrunch)

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:LulzSec Releases Arizona Law Enforcement Data, Claims Retaliation For Immigration Law  —  LulzSec has just released a a torrent of data it claims to belong to Arizona law enforcement.  —  From their press release:


Apple releases tool to create an OS X Lion recovery/installation external drive (Mark Gurman/9to5Mac)

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:Apple releases tool to create an OS X Lion recovery/installation external drive  —  For those who are unable to use the web-based recovery tool for OS X Lion, Apple has released a new Mac application that allows users to create their own OS X Lion recovery/installation external drives.


Apple releases fix for mobile vulnerability

John P. Mello, Jr. Top Priority Sector:  cyber_security Image Caption:  iPhone: threenew fixes Apple put a lid on the tempest in teapot surrounding a vulnerability found in its mobile operating system, iOS, with the release on July 15 of a three security fixes. The three patches, which will be automatically installed on an iPhone when [...]


NSA boffin releases mobile security software

John P. Mello, Jr. Top Priority Sector:  cyber_security Image Caption:  Obama: Blackberrywith NSA security The former head of the National Security Agency’s Advanced Secure Communication Lab has launched a new product designed to foil cell phone hackers. According to Michael Franco, who lead the team that designed the software used to secure President Obama’s Blackberry [...]


Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 2 to Developers, Now with Wi-Fi Sync (Arnold Kim/MacRumors)

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 2 to Developers, Now with Wi-Fi Sync  —  As noted by ItsAllTech, Apple has released the first followup beta release to iOS developers. iOS 5 Build 9A5248d was just released this evening.  The first changes noted include:  — Wireless syncing has been enabled for Mac OS X [...]


Google releases Chrome-based Web security scrutinizer – CNET News

The software is an experimental Chrome extension that examines how Web site code executes to see if commands could lead to cross-site scripting or other attacks used to deliver malware to computers via … code,” said Google security test engineer Radoslav …