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Latest Google Wallet hack picks your pocket  10 February 2012 
Source: CNET - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Yesterday, researchers outlined a complicated way to crack the Google Wallet PIN used to make purchases with the smartphone-based payment system. Now there's a new hack that could let a stranger gain access to the funds of Wallet users.
 
Hackers Mug Google's Wallet App on Rooted Android Devices  09 February 2012 
Source: DailyTech - Posted by Dave Wreski   
App is vulernable to quick brute-force attacks on rooted phones. Near field communications (NFC) technology has been around overseas for over half a decade now, but it's finally jumping from the Asian market to the United States.
 
Hackers Hit Apple Supplier Foxconn, Leak Usernames And Passwords  09 February 2012 
Source: Forbes - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Foxconn, the gargantuan Chinese manufacturing backend for much of the tech industry, has developed a reputation as one of the world’s largest, least ethical, and most secretive companies. What better target for an unknown group of hackers trying to make a name for themselves?
 
Hacker releases Symantec source code  08 February 2012 
Source: Reuters - Posted by Anthony Pell   
A hacker released the source code for antivirus firm Symantec's pcAnywhere utility on Tuesday, raising fears that others could find security holes in the product and attempt takeovers of customer computers.
 
How (And Why) Attackers Choose Their Targets  07 February 2012 
Source: Dark Reading - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Every day, we hear another story about a company whose sensitive data has been breached. Press releases, tweets, customer support email, and followup articles all provide insight into the kind of information that’s been compromised, the company’s plans to investigate, and how affected parties can protect themselves.
 
RFID Credit Cards Are Easy Prey for Hackers  02 February 2012 
Source: Network World - Posted by Anthony Pell   
It's been known for some time that there are security issues associated with the increasing use of RFID tags in credit cards, but this past weekend afforded a fresh demonstration of just how easy it is for hackers to take advantage of them.
 
Hacker's Demo Shows How Easily Credit Cards Can Be Read Through Clothes And Wallets  30 January 2012 
Source: Forbes - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Pull out your credit card and flip it over. If the back is marked with the words “PayPass,” “Blink,” that triangle of nested arcs that serves as the universal symbol for wireless data or a few other obscure icons, Kristin Paget says it’s vulnerable to an uber-stealthy form of pickpocketing.
 
Hacking stunt: Stealing smartphone crypto keys using plain old radio  27 January 2012 
Source: Network World - Posted by Alex   
Encryption keys on smartphones can be stolen via a technique using radio waves, says one of the world's foremost crypto experts, Paul Kocher, whose firm Cryptography Research will demonstrate the hacking stunt with several types of smartphones at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco next month.
 
Hacktivists Turn To DNS Hijacking  26 January 2012 
Source: Dark Reading - Posted by Alex   
Hacktivists have added a new tactic to their arsenal: redirecting all of the traffic from a target company's website.
 
O2 sends users' phone numbers to web sites  25 January 2012 
Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski   
An O2 user, Lewis Peckover, found that the mobile phone company has been adding the phone number of any subscriber using its mobile network to the HTTP headers of web requests. The header, x-up-calling-line-id, appears to be inserted by the transparent proxies that O2 uses so it can downgrade images and insert JavaScript into the returned HTML.
 
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