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Date: Tue Jul 27 2010 - 02:49:18 CDT

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http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226100127

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
July 22, 2010

At the Black Hat USA 2010 conference, July 24 - 29 in Las Vegas, mobile
security won't just be over the air, it'll be in the air. Nowadays, said
conference founder Jeff Moss, "it's all mobile all the time. It's like
when they introduced Windows 7 or Windows XP -- it's all new. Everybody
is trying to figure it out."

Rootkits used to get a lot of attention, but this year there was only
one rootkit presentation submitted, Moss says. Of course, a range of
security issues will be explored, such as timing attacks and smart grid
vulnerabilities. But mobile security problems are seeing a surge of
interest.

Moss says that app stores and the apps themselves are getting more
scrutiny from security researchers. People are looking at what it takes
to get malicious apps into app stores undetected.

Kevin Mahaffey and John Hering of Lookout Mobile Security will be
delving into the security of mobile apps next Wednesday, July 28, in a
presentation titled "App Attack: Surviving the Mobile Application
Explosion."

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