Samsung exploit lets malicious apps silently install on Android devices

Roberto Paleari was looking into the inner workings of Samsung devices and detected a series of exploits. How serious are these exploits? He’s noted four separate securityissues: 1.Two different vulnerabilities can be exploited to silently install highly-privileged applications with no user interaction. The privileged applications to be installed can be embedded right inside the unprivileged … Read more

Flash now enabled for all sites in IE10/Win8 (including RT)

Initially Microsoft didn’t want the boatload of crap that comes with Flash to ruin your PC experience (lag, battery drain and security vulnerabilities). But Adobe and MS worked together to make a custom version for Win8. Initially sites were restricted to only permit sites that had ‘good’ Flash in use (excluding Desktop Win8 which was … Read more

The first Windows Phone 8 game using the Unity engine is now available

This is something that’s been requested for a long time from developers (and obviously it’s beneficial to gamers alike). Unity’s SDK beta was used for Drift Mania:Championship 2. The game itself is $2 and has no trial but the real story is Unity. It holds the key to a lot more top notch games coming … Read more

McAfee releases Pledge password generator for Windows Phones

We don’t need antivirus software so McAfee is doing some authentication on our phones: Pledge is a software token that makes your device an easy to use and cost-effective authentication token. With Pledge you can generate one-time password without Internet connection enabling you to authenticate to protected corporate remote access services, virtual desktop environments, bring … Read more