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Tuesday, July 12 2016

Mobile Security News Update July 2016

Conferences
    SummerCon July, Brooklyn, NY. THE FIREWALL ANDROID DESERVES: A CONTEXT-AWARE KERNEL MESSAGE FILTER AND MODIFIER by DAVID WU.

    Defcon August, Las Vegas. SITCH - Inexpensive, Coordinated GSM Anomaly Detection by ashmastaflash. A Journey Through Exploit Mitigation Techniques in iOS by Max Bazaliy. Stumping the Mobile Chipset by Adam Donenfeld. How to Do it Wrong: Smartphone Antivirus and Security Applications Under Fire by Stephan Huber and Siegfried Rasthofer. Discovering and Triangulating Rogue Cell Towers by JusticeBeaver (Eric Escobar). Samsung Pay: Tokenized Numbers, Flaws and Issues and Salvador Mendoza. Attacking BaseStations - an Odyssey through a Telco's Network by Henrik Schmidt and Brian Butterly. Forcing a Targeted LTE Cellphone into an Unsafe Network by Haoqi Shan and Wanqiao Zhang.

Another month has passed and I'm super late again on this blog post.

HushCon EAST badges were super awesome (picture below) did some hacking on them with Trammell Hudson: Hushcon 2016 pagers.


The wait is over, here is the final blog post including source code on Qualcomm's TrustZone: Extracting Qualcomm's KeyMaster Keys - Breaking Android Full Disk Encryption Source extractKeyMaster

The Android Security Bulletin July 2016 fixes a really large number of bugs, including a Remote code execution vulnerability in Bluetooth and Remote code execution vulnerability in OpenSSL & BoringSSL. It is really good to see stuff being fixed and talked about in the open.

Summary on Pokemon GO's permission to your Google Account by the guys from Trail of Bits.

Funny picture of the month:


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