Xiaomi Can Silently Install Any Application On Your Android Device
As we all know very well that the Chinese smartphone manufacturer has become one of the largest manufacturers of smartphones, as it offering good built quality with an excellent level of hardware at a very reasonable price. But, recently a security practitioner discovered that Xiaomi can silently install any application on your Android device.
Xiaomi Can Silently Install Any Application On Your Android Device
Xiaomi has become one of the largest manufacturers of smartphones in the world of smartphone, as it offering good built quality with an excellent level of hardware at a very reasonable price. In addition, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer uses their mobile phones with Google’s operating system, yes, of course, it’s Android and everyone knows that it is the most popular and widely used OS worldwide.
However, like many other manufacturers of smartphones, Xiaomi used its own customized interface or UI, better known as MIUI. Xiaomi performs the pre-installation of certain applications simply to increase the device performance. In this case, as everyone knows its interface MIUI, but there are other preinstalled applications in the device of the Chinese manufacturer we don’t really know that what those apps are and what their purposes.
The question actually arises here that, do these apps pose any threat to your security or privacy?
Simply to find out the actual role of these applications that comes pre-installed on Xiaomi smartphones, a Computer Science student as well as a security practitioner and the owner of a Xiaomi Mi4 smartphone, Broenink from Netherland, begin an investigation to know the actual role, behaviour and purpose of the mysterious pre-installed app, which is known as “AnalyticsCore.apk”, which runs non-stop in the background and even it reappeared later if you delete it.
But, the security enthusiast, Broenink asked about its purposes in the support forums of the company, but the company did not respond. Hence, the student began to study the behaviour of the application and realized that the software sent information to the official server of the company periodically.
Even it can also allow the company Xiaomi to install any applications on any Xiaomi device, as the security enthusiast also investigated that if there was an application or update for the “Analytics.apk” app, but he found that it can be downloaded and install on the device without notifying the user. It is not the first time Xiaomi is related to the pre-installation of adware and spyware. However, now it clearly seems that history could repeat this back door again.
“So it looks like Xiaomi can replace any (signed?) package they want silently on your device within 24 hours. And I’m not sure when this App Installer gets called, but I wonder if it’s possible to place your own Analytics.apk inside the correct dir, and wait for it to get installed,” Thijs Broenink said.
What is really worrying is that Xiaomi can install any applications on our smartphones without notifying us, yes it means silently. Even this can be also exploited by any third parties, as they could use this as a means of access as vulnerability to install malicious applications on our devices.
“This sounds like a vulnerability to me anyhow, since they have your IMEI and Device Model, they can install any APK for your device specifically,” Thijs Broenink said.
As a workaround, Broenink recommends users of Xiaomi to use any firewall app simply to block all connections to related Xiaomi domains and prevent it from performing any attack as the man-in-the-Middle takes advantage of these connections.
Here are list of top best Ethical hacking tools 2016 for windows pc, Linux system and MAC OS x. Must have tools for every hacker and these tools used on pc.
Hacking Tools are developed by some really best coders out there to ease out many complex tasks which have to be done automatically & manually and took painstakingly great deal of time and effort. HACK NEWS
Top Best Hacking Tools Of 2016 For Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
All these hacking tools 2016 provided here are free of cost ,are tried hands on and are being actively developed by community,and if not,their alternatives are provided.
Metasploit is available for all major platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS X. Rather than calling Metasploit a collection of exploit tools, I’ll call it an infrastructure that you can utilize to build your own custom tools. This free tool is one of the most popular cybersecurity tool around that allows you to locate vulnerabilities at different platforms. Metasploit is backed by more than 200,000 users and contributors that help you to get insights and uncover the weaknesses in your system.
This top hacking tool package of 2016 lets you simulate real-world attacks to tell you about the weak points and finds them. As a penetration tester, it pin points the vulnerabilities with Nexpose closed–loop integration using Top Remediation reports. Using the open source Metasploit framework, users can build their own tools and take the best out of this multi-purpose hacking tool.
Nmap is available for all major platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS X. I think everyone has heard of this one, Nmap (Network Mapper) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to Nmap rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts.Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use,and dozens of other characteristics. It may be used to discover computers and services on a computer network, thus creating a “map” of the network.Nmap runs on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are available. Nmap is free and open source.Can be used by beginners (-sT) or by pros alike (packet_trace). A very versatile tool, once you fully understand the results.
Acunetix is available for Windows XP and higher. Acunetix is a web vulnerability scanner (WVS) that scans and finds out the flaws in a website that could prove fatal. This multi-threaded tool crawls a website and finds out malicious Cross-site Scripting, SQL injection, and other vulnerabilities. This fast and easy to use tool scans WordPress websites form more than 1200 vulnerabilities in WordPress.
Acunetix comes with a Login Sequence Recorder that allows one to access the password protected areas of websites. The new AcuSensor technology used in this tool allows you to reduce the false positive rate. Such features have made Acunetix WVS a preferred hacking tools that you need to check out in 2016.
This free and open source tool was originally named Ethereal. Wireshark also comes in a command-line version called TShark. This GTK+-based network protocol analyzer runs with ease on Linux, Windows, and OS X. Wireshark is a GTK+-based Wiresharknetwork protocol analyzer, or sniffer, that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and to give Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers. Works great on both Linux and Windows (with a GUI), easy to use and can reconstruct TCP/IP Streams.
This useful hacking tool can be downloaded in different versions for Linux, OSX, and Windows. If password cracking is something you do on daily basis, you might be aware of the free password cracking tool Hashcat. While Hashcat is a CPU-based password cracking tool, oclHashcat is its advanced version that uses the power of your GPU.
oclHashcat calls itself world’s fastest password cracking tool with world’s first and only GPGPU based engine. For using the tool, NVIDIA users require ForceWare 346.59 or later and AMD users require Catalyst 15.7 or later.
This tool employs following attack modes for cracking:
Straight
Combination
Brute-force
Hybrid dictionary + mask
Hybrid mask + dictionary
Mentioning another major feature, oclHashcat is an open source tool under MIT license that allows an easy integration or packaging of the common Linux distros.
Nessus Vulnerability Scanner Best Hacking Tools 2016
Nessus is supported by a variety of platforms including Windows 7 and 8, Mac OS X, and popular Linux distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Kali Linux etc. This top free hacking tool of 2016 works with the help of a client-server framework. Developed by Tenable Network Security, the tool is one of the most popular vulnerability scanners we have. Nessus serves different purposes to different types of users – Nessus Home, Nessus Professional, Nessus Manager and Nessus Cloud.
Using Nessus, one can scan multiple types of vulnerabilities that include remote access flaw detection, misconfiguration alert, denial of services against TCP/IP stack, preparation of PCI DSS audits, malware detection, sensitive data searches etc. To launch a dictionary attack, Nessus can also call a popular tool Hydra externally.
Apart from the above mentioned basic functionalities, Nessus could be used to scan multiple networks on IPv4, IPv6 and hybrid networks. You can set scheduled scan to run at your chosen time and re-scan all or a subsection of previously scanned hosts using selective host re-scanning.
Maltego hacking tool is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Maltego is an open source forensics platform that offers rigorous mining and information gathering to paint a picture of cyber threats around you. Maltego excels in showing the complexity and severity of points of failure in your infrastructure and the surrounding environment.
Maltego is a great hacker tool that analyzes the real world links between people, companies, websites, domains, DNS names, IP addresses, documents and whatnot. Based on Java, this tool runs in an easy-to-use graphical interface with lost customization options while scanning.
#8 Social-Engineer Toolkit
Social-Engineer Toolkit: Best Hacking Tools
Apart from Linux, Social-Engineer Toolkit is partially supported on Mac OS X and Windows. Also featured on Mr. Robot, TrustedSec’s Social-Engineer Toolkit is an advanced framework for simulating multiple types of social engineering attacks like credential harvestings, phishing attacks, and more. On the show, Elliot is seen using the SMS spoofing tool from the Social-Engineer Toolkit.
This Python-driven tool is the standard tool for social-engineering penetration tests with more than two million downloads. It automates the attacks and generates disguising emails, malicious web pages and more.
To download SET on Linux, type the following command:
Recently went closed source, but is still essentially free. Works with a client-server framework.Nessus is the worlds Nessus Remote Security Scanner most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the worlds largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.
Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with Kismetany wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic. A good wireless tool as long as your card supports rfmon.
Other Top Best hacking Tools:
SuperScan: Effective TCP port scanner, pinger, resolver. SuperScan 4 is an upgrade of the extremely popular Windows port scanning tool
Cain and Abel: The swiss knife of hacking tools. Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems.
Nokia Bell Labs and the Technical University of Munich are responsible for a new technique for data transmission that can offer a terabit per second (Tbps) which is much higher than the Google’s fiber network. It means with 1Tbps we could download the entire series of Game of Thrones in HD in one second.
Nokia Reaches 1Tbps Data Transfer Speed
We all know that the NOKIA is a Finnish multinational company which only manufacture mobile phones, but, hold on, actually many of us are unaware of the true potential of the Finnish multinational company. NOKIA is a Finnish multinational communications and information technology company, founded in 1865.
After the sellout of its mobile phone business, the Finnish multinational company Nokia began to concentrate more broadly on its telecommunications infrastructure business, marked by the divestiture of its “Here Maps” division, its venture in virtual reality, and the acquisitions of French telecommunications company which is known as Alcatel-Lucent and digital health maker Withings in 2016.
However, the Nokia Bell Labs which became a subsidiary of Nokia Corporation after the takeover of Alcatel-Lucent. It was subsequently renamed Nokia Bell Labs. Nokia Bell Labs and the Technical University of Munich are responsible for a new technique for data transmission that can offer a terabit per second (Tbps) over fiber (could download the entire series of Game of Thrones in HD in one second).
But, for now, Google’s 1Gbps fiber network offers the best speeds to the home users. The new technique for data transmission is known as Probabilistic Constellation Shaping (PCS), competes directly with another advance technology in the world of optics presented by the researchers at University College London (UCL) earlier this year, ensuring speeds up to 1.25Tbps.
These Terabit networks could help to evolve into a more nimble Internet, as well as operators and companies that could improve the range and transmission capacity with the high-speed data networks.
The present system uses quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) to achieve greater transmission capacity through a given channel, thus improving the spectral efficiency of optical communications, as indicated from Nokia.
The actual idea is to modify the probability with which the constellation points, the alphabet of the transmission, are used. Traditionally, all constellation points are used with equal frequency. PCS cleverly uses constellation points with a large amplitude less frequently than those with lower amplitude to transmit beacons that on average, are more repellent to noise and other deteriorations. This allows the transmission rate to be adapted ideally to the transmission channel.
However, the technology is yet to be released to the market, as there is still nothing confirm dates were announced for the implementation of this technology in real networks, but it seems to be the part of the revolution “5G” that we could actually expect to see on 2020.
As we all know that the FBI paid a million dollars to unlock the iPhone of a terrorist. However, a researcher from the University of Cambridge has managed to hack that iPhone 5C and also the researcher shows that just with a few tweaks FBI could have Hacked iPhone in just $100.
Now You Can Hack iPhone For Less Than $100
The FBI does lack of experts in some DIY security? as the FBI could have Hacked iPhone in just $100, instead of spending $1.3 million. Anyway, the famous office, which stumbled for weeks on unlocking an iPhone 5c that belonged to one of the authors of the massacre of San Bernardino, had read with some bitterness the results of a study by a researcher at the University of Cambridge in Britain.
Yes, the security researcher, Sergei Skorobogatov manages to bypass the safeguards or the securities that were put by Apple and pointed by the FBI to explain its difficulty in accessing the smartphone of a terrorist, San Bernardino: due to the limit on the number of trials to unlock the code of the device. After 10 unsuccessful attempts, the device was hit by the Apple effect, yes, as Apple programmed this system to delete all its data, hence, ruining any hope of police to recover all the useful information for their investigation.
The security researcher, Sergei Skorobogatov from the University of Cambridge has managed to hack that iPhone 5C and also the researcher shows that just with a few tweaks FBI could have Hacked iPhone in just $100. Yes, sounds crazy, but, it’s true.
According to the security researcher, Sergei Skorobogatov used the hack without the use of any expensive equipment. He used cheap parts instead of expensive parts, that he purchased at a local electronics store. Hacking a four-digit PIN would be the technique that can take up to 20 hours.
To do this, the researcher Sergei Skorobogatov uses a technique known as ‘Nand mirroring’ technique. Using equipment commercially available that and the equipment will also cost you less than a hundred dollars, cruelly precise Skorobogatov that he manages to create copies of the Flash memory of the phone – much as he wants – to increase the number of PIN trials. Here is what the security researcher said, “It does not require any expensive and sophisticated equipment. All needed parts are low cost and were obtained from local electronics distributors”.
So, this is the first public illustration of the real hardware Nand mirroring process for iPhone 5C. As the security researcher, Sergei Skorobogatov also added that “Any attacker with sufficient technical skills could repeat the experiments easily”. However, till now both the FBI and Apple have not commented on Skorobogatov’s research.
Sergei Skorobogatov detailed the whole process in a new paper and was able to gain entry into a locked iPhone 5c using the NAND mirroring technique.
As we all know that the FBI paid a million dollars to unlock the iPhone of a terrorist. However, a researcher from the University of Cambridge has managed to hack that iPhone 5C and also the researcher shows that just with a few tweaks FBI could have Hacked iPhone in just $100.
Now You Can Hack iPhone For Less Than $100
The FBI does lack of experts in some DIY security? as the FBI could have Hacked iPhone in just $100, instead of spending $1.3 million. Anyway, the famous office, which stumbled for weeks on unlocking an iPhone 5c that belonged to one of the authors of the massacre of San Bernardino, had read with some bitterness the results of a study by a researcher at the University of Cambridge in Britain.
Yes, the security researcher, Sergei Skorobogatov manages to bypass the safeguards or the securities that were put by Apple and pointed by the FBI to explain its difficulty in accessing the smartphone of a terrorist, San Bernardino: due to the limit on the number of trials to unlock the code of the device. After 10 unsuccessful attempts, the device was hit by the Apple effect, yes, as Apple programmed this system to delete all its data, hence, ruining any hope of police to recover all the useful information for their investigation.
The security researcher, Sergei Skorobogatov from the University of Cambridge has managed to hack that iPhone 5C and also the researcher shows that just with a few tweaks FBI could have Hacked iPhone in just $100. Yes, sounds crazy, but, it’s true.
According to the security researcher, Sergei Skorobogatov used the hack without the use of any expensive equipment. He used cheap parts instead of expensive parts, that he purchased at a local electronics store. Hacking a four-digit PIN would be the technique that can take up to 20 hours.
To do this, the researcher Sergei Skorobogatov uses a technique known as ‘Nand mirroring’ technique. Using equipment commercially available that and the equipment will also cost you less than a hundred dollars, cruelly precise Skorobogatov that he manages to create copies of the Flash memory of the phone – much as he wants – to increase the number of PIN trials. Here is what the security researcher said, “It does not require any expensive and sophisticated equipment. All needed parts are low cost and were obtained from local electronics distributors”.
So, this is the first public illustration of the real hardware Nand mirroring process for iPhone 5C. As the security researcher, Sergei Skorobogatov also added that “Any attacker with sufficient technical skills could repeat the experiments easily”. However, till now both the FBI and Apple have not commented on Skorobogatov’s research.
Sergei Skorobogatov detailed the whole process in a new paper and was able to gain entry into a locked iPhone 5c using the NAND mirroring technique.
