Playing with Android Smart Lock

Smart Lock on my Nexus 6P caught my attention the other day. I restored my device to not put any personal data at risk and tested some of its features. My 6P has a rather nice fingerprint reader, but if I can avoid authenticating in “safe” environments it would be awesome. You have the following five options; on-body detection, trusted places, devices, face and voices. I personally trust “devices” the most as I have more control of what device I choose. Screenshot_2016-07-29-17-58-57

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A practical guide to privacy online

In respect of privacy on internet there are a lot of tools and techniques available to minimize your traces. Tor Browser is one such “tool” if you like to appear anonymous while browsing the web.

Privacy tools.ic has made a rather nice list of VPN providers, browsers, configurations, ad-ons, even OS do’s and don’ts. Check it out here.

By the way, if you don’t use it yet, test Firefox with Web Developer ad-on, or all extensions for Chrome that can be used to show what sites you visit can see and not.

Tor visualized

torflowJust love the visual effect of this TorFlow, created by Uncharted. If you like to check out the source code if the visuals are actually real, it has been published on GitHub here.

 

SlemBunk, yet another trojan app targeting those “stupid” users

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Again, for this one to work, even on Android they need user interactions. And what is more clever than making it a drive-by exploit pushing apks on porno sites.

However I like the effort for hiding the malicious code: “This “dropper” app is using a packing technique to hide some functions that generate code on the fly and save it to another temporary APK in the device’s storage…” Read more here.