Fraud

Tracking with metadata: It’s not all bad

Human rights groups are using metadata to verify the authenticity of eyewitness footage

Withdrawal vulnerabilities enabled bitcoin theft from Flexcoin and Poloniex

The flaws allowed hackers to overdraw accounts on the two websites without being detected

Pre-installed malware turns up on new phones

A fake version of Netflix that steals personal data and sends it to Russia has been found on several phone models

Gameover malware tougher to kill with new rootkit component

The rootkit works on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions and protects the malware's components from being deleted

FTC: Identity theft is the plague of the country

360 million account credentials found in the wild, says security firm

The list is likely to have been compiled from multiple data breaches, according to Hold Security

Nov’IT says flashing a new ROM onto your Android phone can make it more secure

Uhuru Mobile is a new ROM derived from Cyanogen that aims to make Android phones more secure

Researchers bypass protections in Microsoft’s EMET anti-exploitation tool

The tool can't protect against determined attackers with customized exploits, researchers from Bromium claim

Mastercard and Syniverse protect against card fraud with phone geolocation

Transactions will only be approved when a card holder and their phone are in the same place

Source code for Android iBanking bot surfaces on underground forum

The leaked source code could lead to a larger number of attacks using the mobile malware, security researchers from RSA said