News

News: September – November 17 2016

September:

• Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
• Long-Secret Stingray Manuals Detail How Police Can Spy On Phones
• IoT assault, connected devices increasingly used for DDoS attacks
• iPhone exploit bounty surges to an eye-popping $1.5 million

 

November:

• Chinese company installed secret backdoor on hundreds of thousands of phones
• Qualcomm launches bug bounty program for Snapdragon chips, modems
• Meet PoisonTap, the $5 tool that ransacks password-protected computers
• Gone in 70 seconds: Holding Enter key can smash through defense
• Integer overflow in SystemUI in KK(4.4) and L(5.0/5.1) on Samsung Note devices