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| Security flaw found in T-Mobile?s G1 Android phone |  A group of security researchers uncovered a security flaw in the web browser portion of Android that runs on the G1. According to researcher, Charles A. Miller the flaw could be exploited when a G1 user is tricked into visiting a malicious Web site. Malicious code on the website could then use this exploit to [...] [..] Read complete article |  | Published 25-Oct-2008 by Kelly Hodgkins in AndroidHTCT-Mobilesecurity flaw
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| Security flaw found in Citi Mobile iPhone app | 
Citigroup confirmed publicly that its Citi Mobile iPhone application has a major security flaw. The Citi Mobile application is used by Citibank customers to manage their bank accounts from their iPhone or iPod Touch. The application reportedly stored sensitive information — including account numbers,… [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Jul-2010 by Kelly Hodgkins in iOSiPhone OS / iPod OSaccountCheckingCiti MobileCitibankprivacySecurity
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| Serious Safari security flaw found | 
If you are a Mac user, and fancy Safari as your default internet browser, you are going to want to pay attention to this one. A bug found in Safari’s AutoFill feature can allow a malicious website to gather personal information from a… [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Jul-2010 by Kelly Hodgkins in AppleSecuritybrowsersExploitflawSafari
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| Android apps with ads found to pose privacy and security risks | | Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that mobile applications that integrate advertisements pose privacy and a security risks. The team conducted a study that examined 100,000 apps from the Google Play market and noticed that more than half contained “ad libraries,” while 297 of the apps included “aggressive ad libraries” that could download and run c [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Mar-2012 by Dan Graziano in MobileSecurityAdsAdvertisementsAndroidAppleAppsgoogleGPSin-app adsprivacyRiskSmartphonestracking
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| Phone Creeper: Novel security suite or spyware tool for Windows Mobile |  Touted as an espionage tool but more closely resembling spyware is a new application, Phone Creeper, written by xda-developer member chetstriker. Once installed on a Windows Mobile 5, 6.1 or 6.5 handset with .NET CF 3.5, the software tool can be used to:
secretly and remotely read incoming / outgoing sms
secretly and remotely delete incoming [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Jun-2009 by Kelly Hodgkins in Windows MobileCABremote accessremote controlSMSspySpywaresurveillance
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| iOS 4.2 GM fixes dialer security flaw |  Just a quick follow up to an article we posted last week. It looks like Apple’s iOS 4.2 gold master candidate, which was pushed out to developers last night, closes the security loop hole that allowed the iPhone’s lock screen to be bypassed from the “Emergency Call” function. We’ve been trying, unsuccessful, to replicate the issue with the latest iOS pre-release. If y [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Nov-2010 by Andrew Munchbach in MobileSoftware4.14.2AccessApplebugBypassflawGMgoldiOSMasterSecurity
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| HTC investigating potential Sense security flaw | | A report was recently published by Android Police that suggests HTC’s Sense user interface has several major security flaws that provide HTC with access to SMS data, phone numbers, system logs, location information and much more. Worse, the flaw could potentially allow any third-party application to access the same private information without having permission from the user to do so. The sec [..] Read complete article | | Published 04-Oct-2011 by Todd Haselton in MobileSecurityEVO 3DEVO 4GflawhackHTCissueSensationSenseThunderboltUI
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| OS X Lion security flaw allows anyone to change your password | | Security blog Defense in Depth has found a glaring security flaw in OS X Lion that enables hackers to change the password of any user on a machine running Lion. “[While] non-root users are unable to access the shadow files directly, Lion actually provides non-root users the ability to still view password hash data,” Patrick Dunstan from Defense in Depth explained in a recent blog post. [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Sep-2011 by Todd Haselton in SecuritySoftwareflawhackerlionlocalos xpasswordprivacyuser
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Does your phone have security flaws? DROID does. Sorry, we couldn’t resist. It looks like a flaw found in the Android 2.0.1 code will allow a user to bypass the lock screen on your beloved Motorola DROID. Now, someone can’t… [..] ![Image 0 en - Major security flaw lets anyone bypass AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II security [updated]](http://www-bgr-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/bgr-att-samsung-galaxy-s-ii.jpg)
BGR has uncovered a major security flaw on AT&T’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S II that renders Android’s security lock feature completely useless. Using a simple workaround, the security hole allows anyone to bypass the unlock pattern, which normally denies users access to an Android device unless a preset pattern is drawn on a grid of nine dots spread across the device’s [..] 
