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Presentation about Windows Phone 8.1

Earlier this month, my colleague Cyrill Bannwart and I held two Compass Security Beer Talk presentations in Bern and Jona about Windows Phone 8.1 security. The slides are now online and cover: Our (unsuccessful) black box attempts to break out from a Windows perspective A review of the implemented security features in Windows Phone 8.1 from a mobile perspective Our findings […]

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Windows Phone 8 – An iPhone Alternative for Business?

During our most recent HackLab Day – a quarterly event where Compass analysts research new security topics or solutions – I have investigated Microsoft’s next version of its mobile operating system “Windows Phone 8” (WP8). This update to the previously released Windows Phone 7 version integrates a complete new Kernel (shared with Windows 8 ) […]

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