Now an app that deletes all your phone s data when police try to crack it
Now an app that deletes all your phone s data when police try to crack it
LockUp is a new app that Matt Bergin, a senior researcher with security firm KoreLogic, has developed.
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The maker of the app wants to stop the misuse of forensics software.
Cellebrite is the leading company that supplies such tools to global governments.
It is very likely that your phone will be the first thing the police will take into their custody should you find yourself caught in an unwelcome situation. Police in several countries have gained access to some advanced tools that help them pry into a locked smartphone for data. While tech companies do not advocate cracking tools, the need for them has led to the growth of digital forensics to understand more about a convict. But given the nature of technology, it may be prone to tampering. And to do away with it potentially, a researcher has developed an a
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These days, if you’re arrested and charged with a crime, the first thing cops will likely try to do is look at the contents of your phone. Digital forensics is increasingly a favorite way to secure a conviction, or at least gain a broader understanding of a suspect.
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However, the tools used to crack into phones and extract data aren’t perfect and ongoing research suggests that the evidence they provide could be tampered with under the right circumstances (read: hacking).
To draw attention to these issues, a security researcher recently created an app designed to thwart exactly this kind of snooping. Specifically, the program is meant to obstruct the use of Cellebrite, the digital forensics firm popular with law enforcement, which recently came under fire for egregious vulnerabilities in its signature UFED data-extraction product.
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Black Hat Asia Researchers have used the Black Hat Asia conference to demonstrate the awesome power of the Raspberry Pi as a car-p0wning platform.
Chinese web giant Tencent s Blade Team, a security research group, showed they could circumvent payment schemes used at electric vehicle charging stations. Their exploits also changed the charging voltage and current, an act that could damage the EV.
“The construction of charging stations is accelerating all over the world, but there is little research on the security of electric vehicle infrastructure,” said TenCent Blade Team senior security researcher Wu HuiYu.
The team therefore started to create composite images and test them with the YOLOv3 object detection system to see if they could effectively hide things by placing them next to objects that computer vision systems have been trained to see as unlikely correlations.
That approach saw computer vision systems suggest that mashup images of dogs and cats depicted a horse.
Another interesting result came with images of STOP signs and fruit. Computer vision systems spotted the fruit, but could not identify the STOP sign. The researchers created a STOP sign, photographed it against odd backgrounds, and succeeded in making computer vision systems fail to detect it.