IBM finds another Android phone bug

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IBM security researchers have found a way to exploit an Android flaw that puts more than 55% of Android phones at risk of being taken over by persistent attackers.

By exploiting a weakness it discovered, IBM’s X-Force Application Security Research Team showed it could escalate privileges in a compromised phone and execute code on it, including taking over legitimate applications.

“In a nutshell, advanced hackers could exploit this arbitrary code execution vulnerability to give a malicious app, with no privileges, the ability to become a super app and help the hackers own the device,” according to an X-Force blog.

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Google And Samsung Will Now Release Monthly OTA Android Security Updates – KRWG News22

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Google And Samsung Will Now Release Monthly OTA Android Security Updates
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Black Hat 2015: DHS deputy says ‘just trust us’

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The deputy head of the Department of Homeland Security implored a group of skeptical security pros at Black Hat 2015 to share information about security incidents and to trust the government to keep it safe.

“We understand the trust deficit that exists in the [security] community,” says Alejandro Mayorkas, deputy secretary of Homeland Security, encouraging attendees to participate in a government program where private businesses share information about cyber threats they encounter.

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Part of the trust problem is that businesses lack confidence that government can secure information it receives, Mayorkas says, citing the massive breach at the Office of Personnel Management. (It didn’t help his cause that as the meeting broke up news also broke that unclassified emails for the Joint Chiefs of Staff had been hacked and the email system shut down for two weeks.)

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Unprepared for the mobile security meltdown – Business Spectator

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Unprepared for the mobile security meltdown
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Businesses in Australia and around the world are failing to make adequate provisions to protect their valuable data against mobile security threats.That's according to the latest study commissioned by us at BT, which explored the attitudes of IT …

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