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British Spy Firm Rejects US Claim It Makes Android Malware – TechWeekEurope UK


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British Spy Firm Rejects US Claim It Makes Android Malware
TechWeekEurope UK
Reports indicated the FinFisher kit, which includes what some believe to be a Trojan called FinSpy, fell into the hands of the Hosni Mubarak government of Egypt. Earlier this year, research from US-based CitizenLab suggested the Bahraini regime was

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Researchers Demo NFC Android Phone Hack – TechWeekEurope UK


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Researchers Demo NFC Android Phone Hack
TechWeekEurope UK
Android security has come under the spotlight again after the Pwn2Own contest in Amsterdam revealed a hack via a technology that promises easy payments. Using two vulnerabilities in the Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone, researchers from UK-based

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Words Of War And Weakness: The Zero-Day Exploit Market – TechWeekEurope UK


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Words Of War And Weakness: The Zero-Day Exploit Market
TechWeekEurope UK
On the other, governments want to buy in preparation for cyber warfare. Now they have seen the damage cyber tools can do, from Stuxnet to the super-sophisticated spy tool Flame, governments know what is at stake. One industry insider, who preferred to

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Yahoo Android App Lets Attackers Send Spam – TechWeekEurope UK


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Yahoo Android App Lets Attackers Send Spam
TechWeekEurope UK
Microsoft engineer Terry Zink thought he had identified the first real evidence of an Android spamming botnet, having come across spam messages claiming to come from Yahoo accounts accessed on Google's Android operating system. Sophos also

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