Where did you grow up and what was your childhood like? Did you have any particular experiences/stories that shaped your adult life?
I grew up in central Texas. As kids, we were into sports, bikes, and skateboards. …
Companies using DevOps automation are more agile. They meet business objectives more quickly and efficiently by deploying more frequent changes. They innovate faster with smaller iterations between requirements, commitments, and deployments. They have lower failure rates and disruptions since recovery times are shorter than their peers. …
Last weekend I raced in some of the nastiest conditions I have ever experienced. The rain-soaked gravel roads in northeast Texas were already muddy from Friday’s rain. On Saturday, a mist fell until the rain poured for during the race’s third hour, making some sections even worse. This photo was…
BlackRock — an advanced Android malware derived from Xeres malware — evades detection and steals login credentials or credit card data from 337 different mobile banking, shopping, lifestyle, and video apps. BlackRock was disclosed in July 2020 by ThreatFabric. The Zimperium z9 engine had begun detecting early variants of BlackRock in the weeks prior to the full public disclosure with our patented on-device engine.
Read the full post on blog.zimperium.com.
Originally published at Scott King.
The below timeline includes notable mobile app breaches, failures, and data leaks in 2020. Scroll through the dozens of stories to learn about the more prominent breaches.
The timeline is built using Timeline JS from The Northwestern University Knight Lab.
Originally published at Scott King.
This data visualization is constructed using Google Data Studio using a data set of mobile banking app security risks and vulnerabilities. The data set was formulated using a mobile app scanning and testing platform from Zimperium.
Originally published at Scott King.
This presentation describes the differences between application shielding or hardening technologies and in-app protection.
Application shielding is a set of technologies that modify and obfuscate an application’s binary code. App shielding makes an application more tamper-resistant, protecting against intellectual property theft, piracy, and vulnerability discovery by reverse engineering, and unauthorized…
This presentation describes the top five ways hackers attack mobile apps looking for secrets. It describes particular attacks, the tools used in the attacks, what specific information the bad actor hopes to obtain, and cites real-world examples of each of the attack methods. The presentation is a collection of dozens of stories and was constructed in collaboration with Zimperium’s zLabs research and development team.
How Hackers Attack Your Mobile Apps:
- Authentication Attacks
- Authorization Attacks
- Spoofing and Tampering Attacks
- Racing Resources Attacks
- Information Leakage Attacks
Originally published at Scott King.
