Samsung Pay hack lets attackers skim cards to make fraudulent payments

By James Vincent, TheVerge.com, August 9, 2016  Contactless mobile payments come as standard in Samsung’s latest Galaxy smartphones, but a hacker has found a way to intercept their signals. In a presentation given at Defcon, Salvador Mendoza outlined a number of attacks targeting Samsung Pay, with the smartphone maker responding that it knew about this flaw, but… Continue reading Samsung Pay hack lets attackers skim cards to make fraudulent payments

Your smartphone may be tracking your every move

By Jeff Rossen and Jovanna Billington, TODAY.com, November 17, 2015  If you have an iPhone or an Android, chances are that every single move you make is being tracked, location by location, including the exact times you were there. And if it’s an Android, all that tracking data is being sent straight to Google. Read… Continue reading Your smartphone may be tracking your every move

Android Trojan FakeApp masquerading as legitimate

By Nathan Collier, Malwarebytes.com, June 15, 2016  A warning for all android users A variant of Android/Trojan.FakeApp is stealing the identities of popular applications (apps) such as TrueCaller and Torque Pro. As soon as the FakeApp is installed a shortcut with an icon stolen from one of these popular apps is created, and a notification… Continue reading Android Trojan FakeApp masquerading as legitimate