Our MobileSandbox paper from SAC2013 got an update. It has been accepted as an journal article for the upcoming edition of the International Journal of Information Security.
Android RAM Analysis @ IMF2014
Our paper Post-Mortem Memory Analysis of Cold-Booted Android Devices has been accepted at IMF’14 and was presented there last week.
Our Android Malware Summary for the Year 2013
In 2013 our Mobile-Sandbox analyzed over 150,000 Android applications that were submitted by mostly anonymous users, Anti-Virus-Companies and by our own. Within this huge amount of data our system detected a bunch of malicious and unwanted applications belonging to 44 different and newly discovered malware families.
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ADEL goes open-source
Cracking Android’s full disk encryption
At the end of 2011, Google released version 4.0 of its Android operating system. For the first time, Android smartphone owners were supplied with a disk encryption feature that transparently scrambles user partitions, thus protecting sensitive user information against targeted attacks that bypass screen locks. On the downside, scrambled telephones are a a nightmare for IT forensics and law enforcement, because once the power of a scrambled device is cut any chance to recover data other than bruteforce is lost. Continue reading “Cracking Android’s full disk encryption”