The team at Pwnie Express seems to have a lot of trouble standing still, as it doesn’t seem more than a few months go by before they are talking about yet another disruptive open source product that they are about to unleash on the security community. First it was their Pwn Plug, which combined an off the shelf SheevaPlug with [...]
WiFi Monitor Mode with Android PCAP Capture
Noted security researcher Mike “dragorn” Kershaw, developer of the gold standard in WiFi scanners, Kismet, has recently released a tool for Android that enables raw 802.11 frame captures in WiFi monitor mode. Putting a WiFi device into monitor mode allows it to capture all sorts of interesting data about the wireless network that would otherwise be [...]
An Unlikely Union: Microsoft SmartGlass for Android Review
Despite some concerns and doubts from the community early on, Microsoft has finally released its SmartGlass application for Android. For those who aren’t acquainted with the technology, SmartGlass allows various PC and mobile operating systems to directly control the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console. Users are able to control most aspects of the Xbox interface (and select [...]
Five Games to Show off Your Android Tablet
Whether you’ve been an Android tablet user since the days of Honeycomb on the Motorola XOOM, or you just opened up your brand new Nexus 7, one thing is for sure: you’ve been looking for software which really shows off what your tablet is capable of. Just as in the PC era, games are the [...]
Review: My Sordid Fling With The Nexus 7
I will give Google credit, their propaganda hype machine is starting to rival that of Apple Inc. I’ve had the Nexus 7 for two and half days now and I must say I am far from impressed. Don’t get me wrong, I love Android and have been a user of the ecosystem since day one [...]
How Nexus 7 Will Finish Nook
The Day the Nook Died The Nexus 7 has been unveiled today to much fanfare. 2 years after the first mainstream Android tablet devices were introduced, Google has finally decided to make an official foray into a segment that is already populated by its immensely popular mobile operating system. This foray in particular is probably [...]
Google I/O 2012 Starts Today!
Google I/O 2012 Starts Today! I am here in San Francisco and I am very excited to be attending my first Google I/O. Ever since I started Android development in 2008 I have wanted to attend Google I/O but I have never had the opportunity until this year. I arrived in San Francisco this afternoon [...]