Download Shark for Android for free. Sniffer de paquetes para Android basado en TCPdump y Jnetpcap. Called X-Ray, the app was created by Duo Security, and is now available for download at XRay.io as a standalone APK. What X-Ray does is analyze your Android system and look for known.
A new Android application, developed with funding from DARPA, aims to show users precisely what security holes there are on their Android devices.
Called X-Ray, the app was created by Duo Security, and is now available for download at XRay.io as a standalone APK. What X-Ray does is analyze your Android system and look for known vulnerabilities, including privilege escalation bugs. According to X-Ray,
“Such vulnerabilities can be exploited by a malicious application to gain root privileges on a device and perform actions that would normally be restricted by the Android operating system. A number of such vulnerabilities have been discovered in the core Android platform, affecting nearly all Android devices. Even more have been discovered in manufacturer-specific extensions that may affect a smaller subset of Android users. Unfortunately, many of these privilege escalation vulnerabilities remain unpatched on large populations of Android devices despite being several years old.”
X-Ray is not an antivirus app, so it won’t attempt to identify malware-ridden apps. Instead, the app looks at the system and identifies the holes that attackers might take advantage of to compromise your Android device. Many of the holes are well-known in the world of security researchers, yet carriers do little to patch them. For instance, the GingerBreak vulnerability, found in Android 2.3 Gingerbread (the most prevalent Android flavor today), is a well-known bug that has been commonly abused by digital wrongdoers for more than 18 months.
Unfortunately, X-Ray will not fix the vulnerabilities it identifies on your smartphone or tablet. The app simply tells you that your device is exposed and recommends contacting your carrier or applying a safer variant of Android yourself, such as the CyanogenMod custom ROM.
While not offering remedies to the problems it signals, I think that Duo Security should be commended for the effort it put into highlighting the serious problem that is mobile security today. Check out the app from the link in the source, and let us know your opinion.
Duo LabsBack in 2012, the Duo Labs security research team released the first-ever vulnerability scanner for Android-based devices known as X-Ray.
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X-Ray is an app anyone can download that safely scans for vulnerabilities on your Android phone or tablet, allowing you to assess your current mobile security risk.
At the time, X-Ray scanned devices for eight serious vulnerabilities and was not really updated as often as we would have liked.
Since our first attempt at Android vulnerability assessment, there have not only been a lot more vulnerabilities impacting the platform, but also some changes in how we are able to test devices for the existence of those vulnerabilities.
Additionally, others such as NowSecure have released their own Android Vulnerability Test Suite (VTS) and the Android team over at Google have even added vulnerability checks to their Compatibility Test Suite (CTS).
These are fantastic developments in the Android security world however, leveraging Google's CTS for example, requires a bit more technical know-how than most non-developer users may have.
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As one of Duo Labs' guiding principles is to keep security simple, we are proud to announce a refresh of our Android vulnerability assessment tool, X-Ray.
Earlier this year, when we set out to update X-Ray, we wanted to not only add more serious vulnerabilities to our list of items scanned for, but we also wanted to ensure that X-Ray could be easily updated in the future as required. We determined that the best course of action was to integrate X-Ray with other publicly available tools.
This means, as new vulnerabilities are added to these testing frameworks, users will automatically get them added to X-Ray as well, to ensure timely detection. In addition, our focus will shift from updating X-Ray to adding to Google's CTS and NowSecure VTS instead. By contributing to CTS and VTS, we are able to not only keep X-Ray up to date, but also contribute to the overall testing community.
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We hope you find our updated X-Ray tool useful and we welcome any feedback or questions you may have at xray@duosecurity.com. For a list of all the vulnerabilities X-Ray scans for, or to download the app, head on over to https://labs.duosecurity.com/xray.