Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Going for a meeting or for a party and your Phone’s battery discharged? Oops! Yes, I know this happens with most of us once in a day or I can rather say all of us. Smartphones are smart enough but not that…
Free Microsoft Windows for the Internet of Things and Mobile Devices
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Tomorrow, 8th April could be a sad day for all those who are still using Windows XP, as it is an official assassination day of it, but there is also a good news that Microsoft is going to stop charging for…
He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital dimension. Terrorist organisations have turned social networks and online forums into recruitment hotbeds and propaganda mechanisms. We need a security apparatus in the digital space to address this threat. Hackers are the face of this digital army.” The actor said he is bringing his whole team including scriptwriters of the show to observe and interact with the ethical hacker community. (Also Read: Tabu Has Shown Interest in 24, Says Director ) “From November 22, I will start shooting for 24. It will go on air in 2016. When an actor prepares for a role, we often start to live like the character. Some call it method acting. We meet real life people like the character and try to understand their nuances, their life,” he said. As per the summit’s website, speakers will share details of the espionage mission as well as hold sessions on hacking of cellular networks, medical devices in hospitals, using technical loopholes in them. The consortium claims to have discovered cyber espionage operation under which phones of Indian Army personnel, who had downloaded some mobile application related to news, had been compromised by hackers based in Pakistan. IIC CEO Jiten Jain has said that the findings were handed over to security agencies who promptly acted and sanitised the infected handset early this year.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital dimension. Terrorist organisations have turned social networks and online forums…
LG is apparently planning to launch a mobile payment service dubbed G Pay in the US and South Korea
According to a new report from LG’s home market of South Korea, LG is developing its own mobile payment platform to compete against rival offerings from Samsung, Google, and Apple. It was recently discovered that LG has applied to register the G Pay trademark in both South Korea and the…
LoopPay hackers sought intellectual property, breach adds to mobile payment security challenges
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans LoopPay, the technology acquired by Samsung in its bid to differentiate itself from Apple Pay, was reportedly breached months ago by a Chinese hacking group looking to replicate its technology, Samsung has confirmed. The LoopPay network is physically separate from Samsung…
Samsung says its mobile payments data is safe despite hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Samsung Electronics has said its mobile payment system is safe after a hacking attack against its US-based subsidiary LoopPay. An article in the New York Times on Wednesday said the hacking incident had occurred against LoopPay’s network in March. LoopPay, acquired…
NSFW: Latest breakdown of mobile traffic by Pornhub
Last year, we passed along some interesting stats from Pornhub. Now, the porn site has once again found time to take the raw data that is generated by its visitors, and turn it into some worthwhile figures. Right off the bat, Pornhub shows us how much traffic from both iOS…
Microsoft to eliminate an exploit that allows Android to run on Windows 10 Mobile
If Microsoft wasn’t so adamant about preventing one Android based bug from being exploited by Windows 10 Mobile users, those provided the right tools from Microsoft would be able to run Android on their Windows 10 Mobile powered handsets. Think about all of those Android flavored apps not available for…
Hack Brief: Mobile Manager’s Security Hole Would Let Hackers Wipe Phones
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans REMOTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS for mobile phones are supposed to make it easy for companies to wipe a device clean if it gets lost or stolen. But a vulnerability discovered in a popular remote management system used by thousands of businesses to…
Leaked documents reveal Microsoft’s plan to sell mobile to the enterprise using trials
Microsoft has apparently put together a special marketing campaign to help push Windows Phone sales for the enterprise. Microsoft is apparently looking at two different presentation packages for businesses. One uses a “premium packaging concept development,” designed for “decision makers in organizations with large handset opportunities.” The other is a…