Hacker News with Generative AI: Mobile Security

Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18 (boehs.org)
You are Apple. You want to make search work like magic in the Photos app, so the user can find all their “dog” pictures with ease. You devise a way to numerically represent the concepts of an image, so that you can find how closely images are related in meaning. Then, you create a database of known images and their numerical representations (“this number means car”), and find the closest matches. To preserve privacy, you put this database on the phone.

Privacy, Mobile Security, Machine Learning, Image Recognition, iOS

10 points by vsgherzi 7 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Why do banking apps care about your phone OS (ycombinator.com)
Many banking apps require a non rooted phone and up to date OS, but even those phones can run a browser which provides access to the bank website, often with more functionality than the app.

Mobile Security, Banking, Mobile Apps, User Experience

33 points by j-bos 40 days ago | 48 comments

A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Found 7 Pegasus Infections (wired.com)
The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it’s already turning up victims.

Cybersecurity, Spyware, Mobile Security, Pegasus

4 points by thunderbong 44 days ago | 0 comments

FBI Warns iPhone and Android Users–Stop Sending Texts (forbes.com)
Timing is everything. Just as Apple’s adoption of RCS had seemed to signal a return to text messaging versus the unstoppable growth of WhatsApp, then along comes a surprising new hurdle to stop that in its tracks. While messaging Android to Android or iPhone to iPhone is secure, messaging from one to the other is not.

Cybersecurity, Messaging Apps, Mobile Security, Android, iPhone

23 points by _____k 45 days ago | 1 comments

Android Trojan that intercepts voice calls to banks just got more stealthy (arstechnica.com)
Researchers have found new versions of a sophisticated Android financial-fraud Trojan that’s notable for its ability to intercept calls a victim tries to place to customer-support personnel of their banks.

Cybersecurity, Android, Mobile Security, Financial Fraud, Malware

3 points by type0 78 days ago | 0 comments

Man locked out of Google Drive and loses 9 year old photos after SIM Swap attack (bbc.co.uk)
A man says he has lost files, business records and all his online photos after "failings" by his mobile phone provider allowed fraudsters to take control of his phone.

Cybersecurity, Data Loss, Mobile Security, Google Drive

32 points by microsoftedging 88 days ago | 19 comments

Google Chrome will soon block password autofills if Android phone gets stolen (androidauthority.com)
Google Chrome for Android is preparing to add support for Identity Check, an upcoming feature that will force apps to use biometric authentication when your phone is outside of a trusted location.

Security, Mobile Security, Google Chrome, Android, Biometric Authentication

3 points by thunderbong 88 days ago | 0 comments

Understanding the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) (medium.com)
As the complexity of mobile applications and the sensitivity of the data they handle increase, so does the need for robust security solutions. Enter the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF), a groundbreaking innovation designed to enhance security, efficiency, and flexibility in Android devices.

Android, Mobile Security, Virtualization, Operating Systems

14 points by transpute 98 days ago | 4 comments

Has my mobile security advice changed? (shkspr.mobi)
A decade ago, I appeared on the 361 Podcast to give my advice about mobile security.

Mobile Security, Security, Advice

6 points by ColinWright 110 days ago | 0 comments

Jailbreak Your Enemies with a Link: Remote Execution on iOS (jacobbartlett.substack.com)
This is the story of the Trident exploit chain: 3 zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS that enabled the first remote jailbreak. Part #1 dives into the internals of the JavaScriptCore runtime: where a vulnerability lurks in WebKit which would crack your iPhone wide open.

Cybersecurity, iOS, Exploits, Mobile Security

35 points by jakey_bakey 123 days ago | 3 comments

New Phishing Technique Bypasses Security on iOS and Android to Steal Bank Creds (securityweek.com)

Security, Mobile Security, Phishing, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches

52 points by LinuxBender 149 days ago | 18 comments

Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out (csoonline.com)

Security, Microsoft, Authentication, Mobile Security

497 points by miles 153 days ago | 311 comments

Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers (krebsonsecurity.com)

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, AT&T, Mobile Security, Privacy

311 points by todsacerdoti 189 days ago | 5 comments

Europol says Home Routing mobile encryption feature aids criminals (bleepingcomputer.com)