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Privacy vs. Security

If you think about it, practically every type of security product in the market provides security through surveillance. Surveillance is the act of keeping a close watch over someone or something in order to prevent or detect. In law enforcement it’s looking for crime but in an IT sense it’s [...]
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Zimperium Applauds Google’s Rapid Response to Unpatched Kernel Exploit

On March 15th, Zimperium’s zIPS Mobile Threat Protection solution identified a zero-day mobile attack and its zLabs research team immediately reported the exploit to the Android Security Team. The reported attack is delivered via a publicly-available rooting application, KingRoot, using an unpatched local elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel reported […]

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Reflecting on Stagefright Patches

42.84% of Android devices tested are vulnerable to CVE-2015-3864. Although Google issued an update to the Hangout app that disabled automatic processing of media files, we know that CVE-2015-3864 can be exploited remotely and reliably via the browser. The number of Android devices is estimated to be between 1.4 and […]

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Zimperium Expands Global Presence With Deutsche Telekom Partnership

We’re pleased to announce that Deutsche Telekom, one of the largest and most trusted telecommunications companies in the world, selected Zimperium to power a critical security initiative to secure millions of endpoints. Deutsche Telekom will use Zimperium’s technology to power Mobile Protect Pro, a new offering for business customers from […]

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Triada Gets Tripped by Zimperium’s z9 Engine

Triada, a modular, stealthy and persistent Trojan targeting Android devices, was recently seen in the wild and reported on March 3, 2016. It, like so many others that we see daily, actively uses root privileges and operates silently to take over a device. Triada is primarily propagated through malicious applications […]

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Reflecting on Recent iOS and Android Security Updates

By:Zuk Avraham Follow Zuk Avraham (@ihackbanme)Joshua Drake Follow Joshua Drake (@jduck)Nikias Bassen Follow Nikias Bassen (@pimskeks) The last thirty days proven to be yet another exciting time for the mobile security ecosystem. Apple and Google released updates for their respective mobile operating systems that fix several critical issues — including […]

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