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Tuesday, February 09 2016

Mobile Security News Update February 2016

Conferences:
    SyScan360 March, Singapore. Browsers Bug Hunting and Mobile device exploitation by Francisco Alonso.

    Black Hat Asia March, Singapore. ANDROID COMMERCIAL SPYWARE DISEASE AND MEDICATION by Mustafa Saad. ENTERPRISE APPS: BYPASSING THE IOS GATEKEEPER by Avi Bashan & Ohad Bobrov. HEY YOUR PARCEL LOOKS BAD - FUZZING AND EXPLOITING PARCEL-IZATION VULNERABILITIES IN ANDROID by Qidan He. SU-A-CYDER: HOMEBREWING MALWARE FOR IOS LIKE A B0$$! by Chilik Tamir.


Mobile Pwn0rama the SyScan version of mobile pwn2own. Very cool!

CopperheadOS beta released for Nexus 5, 9, and 5X. I need to buy a new phone to try this out. For those who don't know about CopperheadOS, it is a hardened Android. I was waiting for something like this for a long time. Not as a user more like somebody should really do this. Anyway, looks pretty cool.

Last weekend I published a write-up on CVE-2016-0728 vs Android. The TL;DR is that this vulnerability was totally over hyped for Android. There is no practical impact for the Android platform.

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