Yesterday, I attended the Mobile Barcamp on Security at ETSI. Even though attendance was rather low, the exchanges were interesting, and the unconference format made them even more interesting. It was my first Barcamp, and I really enjoyed it. Among the news and messages spread during the meeting, one struck me, even though it is …
I am French, and I must admit that my government spends a lot of time innovating about technology, in particular in relation with artistic creation. After enacting a wonderful antipiracy law that will cause problems to people with poorer network security skills than their neighbors, a recent report is suggesting to tax Google because it …
I read very alarming news today, for a lot of kids around the world: Santa’s naughty-nice database has been hacked. The very good article shows all the typical issues related to privacy, and also to the fact that some records are grossly incorrect; all typical issues encountered when such a massive leak occurs. Now, here …
Using an open system to develop a closed device is nothing new, and it is working. We can therefore hardly call Barnes&Noble innovators for basing their Nook e-book reader on the Android operating system. In another community, opening closed devices (and especially those that run on an open system) is also a well-known sport, and …
The mobile security community already know about PTDs (personal trusted devices), but do we know about, but until very recently, I didn’t know what a PSD was. It seemed obvious from the ad I received from one of my favorite e-commerce sites, so I looked up the device. The Leyio has been launched a few …
Well, Apple is everywhere in the news these days … I really enjoyed the news of the first iPhone worm being unleashed in Australia. The question I ask today is: how bad is that news? It sure sounds bad at first. worms are not the kind of beasts that we want to see on our …
Apple is not my usual cup of tea, as there are way enough sites that make a living on Apple rumors. I recently took a look at one of them, Apple Insider, to check on a few things happening there, and I found three interesting articles, all somehow linked to mobile security.
These days, Android is a bit of a hot topic, for many reasons that we all know. It seems that a new device is released every week, the operating system is open source, so everybody can at least play with it and integrate low-level software, applications can be deployed, and most likely much more. Android …
Most of us spent some time in school studying program proofs in a way or another. Many techniques exist, but in most cases, their most important use it to make students understand that, sometimes, a computation does not end. Proving programs is hard, but the hardness of the proof greatly depends on what you want …
Yet another profession needs to turn computer-literate, or at least smartphone-literate. Stealing devices like iPhone’s and Android devices, as we owners increasingly use services that allow us to locate our lost/stolen precious phones. In the story recalled by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the thieves were elaborate enough to think about asking the victim for his credit …
