Saturday, May 5, 2012

Tech Review Security: Friday, May 4, 2012

Over 1.5 million Visa, MasterCard credit card numbers stolen?

  • Global Payments
  • Hacked over a period of time

A first: Hacked sites with Android drive-by download malware


  • NotCompatible
    • Update.apk
  • infiltrate normally protected information or systems
  • Automatically downloaded
  • sideloading must be enabled
    • loading from "Unknown sources"
  • Used must agree to install

How to hide from face-detection technology