Stagefright is a new Android vulnerability that's serious enough to deserve its fancy marketing name. As one security pundit said, "It's the Heartbleed of mobile vulnerabilities." Attackers can leverage this dangerous flaw against 95% of Android devices simply by sending you a text message with a specially crafted file. You don't even have to interact with the message for the … [Read more...]
Hacking Nation States & Crashing iPhones – WSWiR Episode 154
Unfortunately, lots of security news suggests lots of cyber crime. If you want to stay protected, you need to keep up to date; but who has time? Hopefully our weekly InfoSec video can help. Last Friday's episode covered an IRS data leak, a mysterious text message that crashed iPhones, some scary new crowd-sourced ransomware, and more. Watch the YouTube video below for all the … [Read more...]
iOS Crash Text – Daily Security Byte EP.89
High schoolers around the nation likely woke up to randomly rebooting iPhones due to pranksters exploiting a mysterious new flaw triggered by a simple text message. The news of this malicious text started on Reddit, but quickly spread as security researchers and the press jumped on the issue. Learn more about it in today's video. (Episode Runtime: 2:20) Direct YouTube … [Read more...]
