With an 87% global market share, it’s no wonder that Android devices are attracting malware authors like circling vultures – much to Apple’s delight. There’s a kind of hackers’ arms race going on as they compete to plant nastier and nastier bugs on Android phones. The latest arrival is ransomware, which infects and encrypts your files then (sometimes) releases your… Read more »
» Listen or download now on the podcasts page » Vivek Ramachandran is perhaps best-known for his work on wifi security: he is, after all, the author of BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing. He’s also the founder and CEO of SecurityTube, which provides online security training. At Black Hat Europe 2013, however, his focus was elsewhere. Vivek presented a workshop on pen-testing… Read more »
Vivek Ramachandran. Published by Packt Publishing (ISBN: 978-1-849515-58-0). Price: $49.99, 208pgs, paperback. It says something for the ubiquitious nature of wifi that this subject warrants a book to itself. Wireless networks are everywhere – some would argue they’re in too many places. And as we discuss in the article on pg.14 of this issue, the technologies that are supposed to… Read more »