Need to get a high resolution version of an app icon or just want to check out an app’s various assets? iDownloadBlog points out that you can easily check out all those images by just dragging and dropping an app to the Preview app. All you need to do is …
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This Artist's Images Integrate Code From Malware Like Stuxnet and Flame
Wired In an exhibit at Manhattan's Callicoon Fine Arts gallery running through the next month, artist James Hoff is showing a new series of images that visually integrate code from government-written malware samples like Stuxnet and Flame. As Hoff describes … |
A new technique that allows attackers to hide encrypted malicious Android applications inside images could be used to evade detection by antivirus products and possibly Google Play’s own malware scanner.
The attack was developed by Axelle Apvrille, a researcher at Fortinet, and reverse engineer Ange Albertini, who presented their proof-of-concept at the Black Hat Europe security conference in Amsterdam Thursday.
It’s based on a technique devised by Albertini dubbed AngeCryption that allows controlling both the input and the output of a file encryption operation using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) by taking advantage of the properties of some file formats that allow files to remain valid despite having junk data appended to them.
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If you use the Twitter app on your Mac, images get cached on your hard drive and can take up space. James Powell from Mac Tricks & Tips shows you how to find the cache and clear it out.A lot of cleaning tools will clear out caches, but they could be …
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