Android security patch ‘flawed’ – BBC News

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Android security patch 'flawed'
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An Android update designed to fix a security hole in the operating system is itself flawed, it has emerged. In July, a vulnerability that affected up to a billion Android phones was made public by software researchers. Google made a patch available …
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Black Hat 2015: Hacker shows how to alter messages on satellite network

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Globalstar satellite transmissions used for tracking truck fleets and wilderness hikers can be hacked to alter messages being sent with possibly dire consequences for pilots, shipping lines, war correspondents and businesses that use the system to keep an eye on their remote assets.

The technique, described at Black Hat 2015, can’t affect control of the Globalstar satellites themselves, just the messages they relay, but that could mean altering the apparent location of assets the system tracks. So a cargo container with a satellite location device in it could be made to seemingly disappear, or an airplane could be made to seem to veer off course, according to a briefing by Colby Moore, a security staffer at Synack.

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Patching a fragmented, Stagefrightened Android isn’t easy – The Register

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Patching a fragmented, Stagefrightened Android isn't easy
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Because of a security weakness hackers might be able to wrap seemingly innocuous apps with MRSTs, bypassing Android security restrictions in the process. This week another blockbuster security flaw in Android – this time hitting 55 per cent of mobiles …
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Bastille promises to find malicious wireless devices in corporate networks

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Startup Bastille can flag suspicious radio traffic within enterprises to give security pros a means for keeping an eye on wireless Internet of Things devices that would otherwise elude detection.

The company is beta testing its system, which consists of radio-frequency sensors that gather data about radio traffic in the enterprise and a cloud-based analysis engine that figures out what traffic represents a threat, says company founder and CEO Chris Rouland.

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Bastille CEO Chris Rouland with a portable Bastille sensor.

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