Posts Tagged ‘security’

StegaGram

12 May 2012 at 23:26

David Stites

Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Objective-C, Security, Software

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Everyone knows — or at least everyone SHOULD know — that email is not a secure form of communication. It’s a lot like yelling across a parking lot. Your message is sent “in the clear” along most of the connections that lie between you and the recipient. For the times when you want to send [...]

Password Security Theater

08 Feb 2012 at 19:55

David Stites

Security

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I got to thinking about passwords last night because I couldn’t sleep and I wanted to clarify something.  Many people have asked me, “If you use numbers and special characters add to the “hardness” of a password?” Initially I say “No, but it adds to the key space” (key space is the total number of possibilities that [...]

Affected Applications from “A Survey Of Mobile Device Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Defenses”

17 Jan 2012 at 09:25

David Stites

Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Operating Systems, Security, Software

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The author surveyed over 230 applications (the full list of applications ,can be found in A Survey Of Mobile Device Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Defenses), including applications in the “Top” categories on the iTunes store to determine what type of information could be extracted from auditing packet streams. The results were quite surprising. To perform [...]

A Survey Of Mobile Device Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Defenses

14 Dec 2011 at 00:09

David Stites

Android, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Operating Systems, Security, Software

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By David Stites and Anitha Tadimalla {dstites, atadimalla}@uccs.edu University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Abstract— Mobile devices, such as smartphones and PDAs have become increasingly popular with consumers and often provide essential functionality in our everyday life. Usually these mobile devices contain lots of sensitive information, such as addresses, contacts, ingoing/outgoing call logs, SMS messages, [...]