Category: android

BeyondCorp Google’s new Approach to Security – we need to know EVERYTHING about the user – in order to trust the user – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism one tweet against Google… and the user’s Twitter account could look like… […]

SecurityLab, [22.12.20 10:00] Google has explained the reasons for the massive failure of its services that took place last week. Recall that on December 14 of this year, users around the world for 47 minutes could not access Gmail, YouTube […]

“Linux has made it to Mars” “The Red Planet runs on Linux” (src: theverge.com) just hope the #Perseverence Mars rover ain’t running Windows 🙈 (then it is lost already X-D) it will start a flight in the next 2-3 months […]

not sure if the news rang through… the Amazon Cloud (AWS) guy will be the new CEO of Amazon. What cloud? Amazon “cloud” Hetzner “cloud” cloud (centralized digital infrastructure) can be designed / implemented in different ways. from: the user/admin […]

DNS servers are the “yellow pages” “phone book” of the internet. whoever is running DNS servers get’s to know all queries send (what client is requesting and probably connecting to what address… basically: what websites the user have visited, this […]

all internet connected devices need regular maintenance and security updates (especially those directly accessible to the internet (without proxy (hopefully that proxy gets regular security updates)) it is a good idea to 1) backup then 2) update, in case user […]

contains advertisement. to be honest, it is hard to keep up the speed at which cyber incidents are reported. here is the latest take on “Russian IT Sec Updates”. have phun!   SecurityLab, [28.09.20 08:20] Last month, TikTok developers rolled […]

SecurityLab, [14.07.20 15:35] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has unveiled a new database demonstrating how and where us law enforcement agencies use tracking technologies. A map of the use of tracking technologies in the United States is presented (https://www.securitylab.ru/news/510018.php) SecurityLab, […]

All SmartPhones are spies! that’s why Merkel keeps the Nokia from 1995 (even if that device is spied on as well, because it can not end2end encrypt sms or phone calls (*FAIL*! X-D)) Putin does not have a mobile phone […]

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ “where it has gone from defending America to controlling it” data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of […]

KEEP BLUETOOTH OFF AT ALL TIMES! (switch it on when you need it and off when done (file transfer etc)) also saves energy on phones does usage of stylish ear bud bluetooth headsets increases security risk? (Bluetooth permanent on) this […]

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/ hm…. let me think where one has seen this before: TELEGRAM! Zoom’s service is “not suited for secrets” “The researchers also found that Zoom protects video and audio content using a home-grown encryption scheme, that there is a vulnerability […]

this really raises the question: the mobile (complete computer) phone (number) as key to everything? is it a good idea to rely on smart phones (that are essentially a very small laptop and a cellular modem) and phone numbers to […]

now WITH SPICY COMMENTS X-D SecurityLab, [22.12.19 12:40] A Twitter user using the alias 08Tc3wBB created tfp0-an exploit that allows you to jailbreak the latest iPhone models with IOS 13.3. The functionality of the exploit has already been confirmed by […]

what do you think about the CNBC documentary? 2012: Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds: 1,5 Million Views! contains the famous “Fuck You NVIDIA” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA Linus Torvalds writes software since his early childhood ages and just loves programming. Without this love […]

apologize! games = windows, still ? (although there are 6000 steam games running on linux) the very first “Open Source GPU” is in the making: https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class “The Libre RISC-V M-Class is a RISC-V chip that is libre-licensed to the bedrock. […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRt2VYjAy4c 2013: just in case if anyone was asking if the DARPA Robot challenge was for helping mankind in space… well… that and other things. 2017: the Russians have their robot challenge as well, further fueling the arms race (spending […]

update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel 100% open source drivers comes with […]

what IT can learn from nature: (src) mostly US users affected. Big Business: Big Companies and Big Money can afford Big Staff to maintain and secure their products, but they also provide Big Infrastructure (AWS, Office) and thus a single […]

the user has to know, that Mozilla is very much (still) dependant on Google’s money. first of: NO! Mozilla Firefox (former Netscape) will always be the Browser for users that care about privacy and avoiding 1984 in it’s worst scenario […]

Phone in the cloud: “telephone system in the cloud” or “telephne system as software” is the “latest shit”. SipGate Basic (in English: https://www.sipgatebasic.co.uk/ / in German:  https://www.sipgatebasic.de/) gives one a local VoIP land line number. One can have: a virtual […]

look at this superb piece of Open Source software: … that is actually USED BY PEOPLE (like this one to write this article). unlike windows it comes with: life-time FREE UPDATES (!!!!!!!!!) a simple no f*****ing tiles design it comes […]

Stay up to date on IT-Security: SmartPhones sind wie komplette Computer – Plus: noch weiterer Funktionen. D.h. eigentlich muss man die IT-Security von SmartPhones genauso handhaben wie die aller anderer Computer. D.h. Regelmäßige Updates (automatisch oder halb-automatisch, Virenscanner, Firewall… you […]

screw Qualcomm, what one wants is should work out of the box with recent Linux kernels on Open Source drivers only: https://dwaves.de/2019/07/03/recommended-tested-hardware-superb-wifi-wlan-adapter-chipset-atheros-ar9285-mini-pcie-for-gnu-linux-debian-10-ubuntu-and-trisquel-8-0-test-run-on-lenovo-t440-and-librebooted-lenovo-x60s/ as far as i understand this… if you are concerned about the security of your phone… (banking apps… […]

it might sound strange… and even if it sucks, but if you are concerned about security, call me paranoid but: your company’s critical infrastructure SHALL NOT BE REACHABLE BY WIFI! (especially not if you are running a nuclear power plant, […]

update: 2020-05 for whatever reason the following SSHDroid app does not work anymore. please checkout the even easier to use (default port: 2222) and setup: SimpleSSHD (Easy to use SSH server) – https://f-droid.org/app/org.galexander.sshd # start the ssh server app # […]

google’s security lab “project zero“ has made itself a name. (you can subscribe to their rss feed with thunderbird.) Posted by Ben Hawkes, Project Zero (team lead) (2019-05-15) Project Zero’s team mission is to “make zero-day hard”, i.e. to make […]

the affordable 100% Open Source phone: update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel […]

Update: USB 3.0 can interfere with WiFi “USB 3.0 has a 5Gbps signaling rate. The USB 3.0 specification requires USB 3.0 data to be scrambled and it requires spread-spectrum. The noise from USB 3.0 data spectrum can be high (in […]

really don’t understand how a SoC with 3GB of RAM (!) and a 8x Core ARM can be put to the bin (as Debian GNU Linux runs on devices with as little as 1GB RAM and 2x Cores) because there […]