Fingerprint readers are par for the course with today’s flagships, and even midrange handsets, as more and more mobile payment systems require an extra level of authentication to work just like your credit or debit card. Moreover, we are getting accustomed to use them for unlocking our phones, securely launching…
Morning Security Brief: License Plate Scanners, Smartphone Risk Picture, Firearm Requests Up, and More
►Police in Tennessee are embracing license plate scanning technology. It’s led them directly to vehicles used in crimes and in their first year of use, Memphis police wrote almost twice as many citations for revoked and suspended licenses. It was also used to find a suspect in the murder of…
Web-based malware use smart redirection to evade URL security scanners
Security researchers from antivirus vendor ESET have come across new Web-based malware attacks that try to evade URL security scanners by checking for the presence of mouse cursor movement. The new drive-by download attacks were spotted in the Russian Web space and don’t require user interaction to infect computers with…
2 in 3 Android anti-malware scanners not up to the job
Two-thirds of Android anti-malware scanners failed to protect against a range of malware in independent tests. AV-Test put 41 different virus scanners for Android through their paces. Almost two-thirds of these scanners are not yet suitable for use as reliable products, identifying less than 65 per cent of the 618…
Airport in Des Moines to unveil its new security scanners
Full-body scanners, the open cylindrical capsules at airport checkpoints that represent the latest in security technology, will be unveiled today at the Des Moines airport. The advanced imaging technology system comes loaded with software that displays suspicious objects on a generic outline of a human body. The extra layer of…
Freebie Android anti-malware scanners flunk tests
Many free-of-charge antivirus products fail to protect Android smartphone against malware effectively, leaving users with a false sense of security as a result. Tests by antivirus testing lab AV-Test.org revealed that the best freebie Android anti-virus scanner, Zoner Antivirus, caught 32 per cent of 160 recent Android threats. The other…
