Android Vulnerability Lets Malware Bypass App Signatures

av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 10, 2017 | Notiser

Google’s December 2017 Android Security Bulletin contains a fix for a vulnerability that allows malicious actors to bypass app signatures and inject malicious code into Android apps.

Discovered by the research team at mobile security firm GuardSquare, the vulnerability resides in the mechanism Android OS uses to read application signatures.

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Top-selling handgun safe can be remotely opened in seconds—no PIN needed

av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 10, 2017 | Notiser

Not clear if issue with highly-rated safe can be patched.

One of Amazon’s top-selling electronic gun safes contains a critical vulnerability that allows it to be opened by virtually anyone, even when they don’t know the password.

The Vaultek VT20i handgun safe, ranked fourth in Amazon’s gun safes and cabinets category, allows owners to electronically open the door using a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone app. The remote unlock feature is supposed to work only when someone knows the four- to eight-digit personal identification number used to lock the device.

Källa: Top-selling handgun safe can be remotely opened in seconds—no PIN needed

Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation

av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 10, 2017 | Notiser

Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation

With Twitter as his Excalibur, the president takes on his doubters, powered by long spells of cable news and a dozen Diet Cokes. But if Mr. Trump has yet to bend the presidency to his will, he is at least wrestling it to a draw.

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