Mobile ad fraud: it’s a real thing that hurts the whole mobile technology ecosystem – from end users to mobile operators and even advertisers. Upstream, a mobile technology company, released its 2019 report, The Invisible Digital Threat. It was an alarming read, revealing just how severe of a threat mobile ad fraud is across the globe. This threat occurs via malicious mobile … [Read more...]
Will Huawei Catch a Break?
Huawei has been under a lot of heat from the US since the US first charged Huawei in the beginning of 2019. At that time, 13 indictments were unsealed by the federal court in Brooklyn, New York against Huawei and affiliate organizations. The charges include bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, wire fraud and the conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to … [Read more...]
My CTF Ventures: picoCTF, Reverse Engineering
Moving forward with the picoCTF challenge platform, after completing the General Skills room I opted for the Reverse Engineering room. This room actually stood out first, even before General Skills. I’ve dabbled in reverse engineering (RE) and it’s a fun but complex and challenging process. Fret not, I committed to it and, well, read further to see what I thought about … [Read more...]
Concerned with What Data Facebook Has Stored About You?
If you’re one of the 2.8B people that uses Facebook and are at least somewhat privacy-centric, I urge you to check out Facebook’s new Off-Facebook Activity settings option. For me, it was found within the Your Facebook Information section. There wasn’t too much within it for me, but The Hacker News’s Mohit Kumar wrote about his experience with this and there were over 1,000 … [Read more...]
CVE-2020-0674: Internet Explorer Vulnerability
Given the recent end of support for Windows 7 and Winders Server 2008 platforms, the timing could not be better for this vulnerability to make the news. Worse still, this Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability applies to modern Windows platforms as well, and an official patch is not expected until February’s Patch Tuesday (the second Tuesday of every month), which means the … [Read more...]