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Thinking of rooting your Android…think again

June 30, 2020 Leave a comment

While many of us have been home, wondering if this virus will go away as quickly as it came upon us, Google has been silently preparing for ‘Round 2’ in the phone wars.

SafetyNet is Android’s third party attestation API and if you want to install legit software from the Google Play Store, you already have it.

Getting ready to route out the last of the modified bootloaders, they have now rolled out a hardware backed detection method to ensure application developers can tell if your device is rooted. This allows high risk vendors like your banking app to prevent the application from running to help curb fraud. Read more about it here.

https://www.xda-developers.com/safetynet-hardware-attestation-hide-root-magisk/amp/

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How to create a solid and secure Content Security Policy

June 26, 2020 Leave a comment

As a security professional who provides security guidance to small business (as well as big!), If you use web based services in your organization (and the chances are that you do and you may/may not know it), there is one thing that your web services need to implement…

https://www.uriports.com/blog/creating-a-content-security-policy-csp/

Categories: General