Articles written by: IDTP
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Tuesday, 14 Aug, 2012
Google, back at Google I/O in June laid out plans for making security improvements, specifically to the app code in Jelly Bean. The improvements focussed on Jelly Bean 4.1 in particular, adding encryption with a device-specific key (improving Digital Rights Management), so apps downloaded from the Play Store could not simply be copied and uploaded to the Internet for others to manually install.
It seemed like this was going to be a major security improvement, that was until the new DRM feature appears to have stopped users from accessing legal Android 4.1 apps bought from the Google Play Store. The idea
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Monday, 13 Aug, 2012
Samsung have now released a firmware update for the Samsung Galaxy S3 here in the UK (see bootnote). It’s a 1MB XXLH1 firmware update via Over The Air (OTA). Which means you cannot update using Wi-Fi. Samsung are referring to this update for the S3 as a stability update. Julian has looked for an official change log but couldn’t find one, but some of his colleagues suspect that this update improves the wireless performance. The Galaxy S3 XXLH1 firmware update may also be preparing the S3 for Android 4.1, also known as Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean, Google’s latest Android mobile
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Friday, 10 Aug, 2012
The Samsung Galaxy SIII (3) has been advertised quite heavily by Samsung here in the UK and in particular during the Olympics. Samsung have obviously paid David Beckham a lot of money to promote the new mobile
Google has been busy making some wholesale changes to the way Google Mobile Wallet (NFC payments) works.
Note: there are two Google Wallets – the
mobile* which allows you to use your mobile device while out shopping and an
online version which is
Google has issued letters to Google Play Store app developers which contained a stern warning outlawing abuses such as impersonation, spamming and deceptive advertising. Google highlighted that it would not tolerate “unhealthy behaviour, like deceptive app names
Facebook users will now be forced into using Timeline from August 8th. From the point when a user clicks ‘get Timeline’, they will still have seven days to play around with their new profile. This clock will
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Wednesday, 1 Aug, 2012
Many websites and this includes Facebook (Like) and Google Plus (+1) use buttons for recommending web pages on social networks. These social networks also monitor your browsing behaviour, even if you don’t have an account and this
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Tuesday, 31 Jul, 2012
The folks over at NQ Mobile’s Security Research Center have just discovered a new Android malware, which can not only push other apps, but the upgraded version of itself to users. NQ Mobile named this malware *VDloader.
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Friday, 27 Jul, 2012
Julian has been researching Android mobile application permissions on the Google Play Store, and has noticed that quite a few apps are now looking to review what permissions their apps have access too. One particular Android app
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Tuesday, 24 Jul, 2012
While at Google I/O last month Julian
reported that Android Jelly Bean (version 4.1 and 4.1.1) SD permission security had been strengthened as well as introducing app encryption as part of Google’s
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Wednesday, 18 Jul, 2012
UK credit-checking company Experian has released a report which claims that online identity theft is up 300% on 2010. Be aware this is identity theft, which isn’t the same as identity fraud. Identity theft is where a
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Tuesday, 17 Jul, 2012
Google continues to improve the security of its Chrome browser, which is now serving over 310 million active users. Google has now added a browser security setting which they claim will prevent non-Chrome Web Store extensions from
