Mother Nature may be taking a snooze this time of year, but that doesn’t mean you can. February brings its share of challenging chores for gardeners, many relating to the weather. If snow cover is light in your area, you may need to add extra mulch, such as a thick layer of straw or evergreen branches, to protect landscape plants. […]

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“SECURE PHONE”

• Let’s create a phone using ANDROID OS as an example
• With protection against network traffic interception;
• With notification about substitution of the base station (BS);
• By choosing open source firmware or removing built-in backdoors (yes, yes, they’re present in almost every firmware!);
• By encrypting it and making it resistant to forensics;
• Discuss backup and recovery methods, as well as encryption for secure storage;
• Talking about antiviruses for Android: are they useful and which one to choose?
• We will highlight services of automatic caller’s number detection, as well as services of automatic call recording of GSM standard and messengers;
• Figuring out the safest messengers of the 3 dominant types (federated, centralized, and p2p);
• Protecting sim cards, types of root and frameworks to change OS function on the fly;
• Using VPN for smartphone;
• Protecting the phone’s DNS from spoofing;
• Using firewalls for Android;
• By protecting your smartphone from being tapped by third-party applications;
• Safely deleting files, with a clear understanding of why you can’t give your phone to repair or sell it without first scrubbing it.

“HACK PHONE”

• Phone as a pentester tool that is always on hand
• Phone as a bootable flash drive for hacking and administering Windows;
• Phone as a BAD UASB tool to deliver a payload;
• Net Hunter and its installation types, directly on the phone, or as an element of Smartphone firmware;

Testing router security via Smartphone;

Setting up and optimizing Termux to work with root rights and pentester frameworks for “underhand” testing