After HP announced it would discontinue production of its TouchPad tablet last week, it looked like early HP tablet adopters spent $500 on a dud. If you’re an enterprising software hacker, however, there could be an opportunity to make your money back — and then some.
A hardware-modification web site is offering a $1,500 cash bounty for the first person to successfully port a full version of the Android operating system over to HP’s TouchPad.
In case you missed this week's bombshell, Google wants to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. While Google's master plan for its Motorola acquisition remains a closely guarded secret, the company has been portraying it as a patent-related business opportunity.
While some device vendors are stockpiling patents, others are hunting down talent, as competition in the mobile handset space heats up. It was revealed this week that Samsung Mobile has hired one of the homebrew market’s most notorious and successful Android hackers, Steve ‘Cyanogen’ Kondik.
Kondik is best known as the creator of the CyanogenMod for Android, an after market customised firmware bringing new features and functionality to the Android platform.
Symantec has discovered a new Trojan malware app circulating for the Android OS. The app is a rogue version of a controversial app involving dog fighting, and is aimed at sending a hacktivist message.
Dog Wars is a game that involves raising your dog to be the most vicious dog on the circuit and taking on other virtual dogs in fights to the death. The app itself is offensive to many -- in fact, it prides itself on being so provocative that you would never find something like it on the iPhone app store.
A security issue has been reported in Dropbox for Android, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, according to Tyrone Erasmus of MWR InfoSecurity.
Android applications can communicate with each other through the exporting of program features, also known as IPC endpoints. This is defined in the AndroidManifest.xml file which is part of all installable application packages.
Last week, we reported on ANDROIDOS_NICKISPY.A and ANDROIDOS_NICKISPY.B, Android malware that recorded phone calls made from infected devices then sent stolen information to a remote site.
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A mobile security expert says he has discovered serious security flaws in Google's Android operating system.
A 10-year-old hacker who goes by the pseudonym CyFi revealed today at DefCon 19 a zero-day exploit in games on iOS and Android devices that independent researchers have confirmed as a new class of vulnerability. The girl from California first discovered the flaw around January 2011 because she "started to get bored" with the pace of farm-style games.
A new bit of Android malware has popped onto security experts’ radar, and this particular trojan can record your phone calls.
Security researchers at CA Technologies have posted their findings about the new trojan. In a blog post, mobile malware specialist Dinesh Venkatesan wrote that the Android package can record phone calls the victim makes as .amr files; the .amr files are then stored to the mobile device’s SD card.
As smartphones increasingly hold interesting data, attackers will target the devices using known vulnerabilities in common software packages.
One security researcher plans to show off just such an attack at next week's Black Hat Security Briefings in Las Vegas.
