Conferences:29c3 end of December in Hamburg, Germany. They have a few mobile talks: Small footprint inspection techniques for Android - Reverse engineering on Android platforms by Pierre Jaury, Setting mobile phones free by Mark van Cuijk. there should be more mobile talks, that are not announced yet.
News:Top Mobile Vulnerabilities And Exploits Of 2012 by darkreading. I have mixed feelings about this top list. The SMS Spoofing should not be on this list.
Hacking Windows 8 Games (google-cache link) shows how badly the Windows 8 game and app payment stuff is protected.
Random stuff:For a side project I'm looking for original ROMs of Android devices. So far I only have found one site that has a collection of some devices: Shipped-Roms.com. I know it is likely not legal to host stuff like this but I would be interested in getting roms for other devices.
Android SMS Spoofer is a PoC for a well known Android bug that enables malware to trick the user into believing an SMS has been received.
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