Researchers at Applidium have published some interesting findings about the protocol used by Siri. For every request the user makes to Siri, the iPhone 4S sends the compressed audio of the request to servers at Apple to first be converted to text. Then, it is mapped into commands that the iPhone can understand, and then sent [...]
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Convenience, ease, and better deals are just three of the reasons why more and more users shop online. Users’ level of adoption for online shopping has been increasing the past years. In fact, reports predict that there will be a 78% increase in the US shopper volume by 2014. Mobile computing is also starting [...] Late last month we reported about survey scams, and how such threats go across platforms from social networks to mobile. Back then we reported a scam deployed through Facebook, which enticed users into clicking links by offering free Starbucks coffee. We saw a scam very similar to the one we reported before, except for [...] During the third quarter of 2011, the threat landscape saw great shifts, replacements, as well as continued cybercriminal efforts. The nature of the attacks seen in the past quarter mostly dealt with software vulnerabilities and different threat infection vectors. This signified possible changes in cybercriminal strategy. First off, Google replaced Microsoft as the software vendor [...] We were recently able to analyze the routines of the latest DroidKungFu variant, detected as ANDROIDOS_KUNGFU.CI. While we were monitoring the traffic between ANDROIDOS_KUNGFU.CI and its remote server, we chanced upon a command to delete a certain package. In the command above, the server instructs the malware to delete a package called com.practical.share. We have [...] |
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