New App - Cryptography Tool

New App - Cryptography Tool Using AES256/CBC/PKCS5

Secure your secret text with AES-256 encryption with this Zero Permission App.

Typical use cases: posting secret notes in social media, posting your personal notes in online journal, sharing secrets with someone else online, verify backup of data from Secret Notes AES-256. 

This app encrypt your text in any language using the so far unbroken AES-256 scheme. The encryption used for securing your notes is AES-256, refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard, one of the strongest encryption scheme. Every text you type into this app are encrypted with your encryption key or password. The key or password is not stored in any form in your phone or anywhere else. 

We have started Zero Permission App (ZPA) initiative on our website, an initiative to provide peace of mind to users by aiming to have no (ZERO) required permission in Android, but still providing innovative and effective features.

IMPORTANT 1: There is no way to retrieve the password if you cannot remember your password. Your password is not stored anywhere and by anyone. We will only be able to help you recover your encrypted text if we have figured out a way to break AES-256, and we have NOT yet done so.

IMPORTANT 2: We will only support this app downloaded direct from Google Play. There are risks that the encryption may be weakened, malware infection, tracking logic added if you download the app from elsewhere.

IMPORTANT 3: Please use a more complex and hard to guess password to protect your notes. Yes, your birthday or phone number is easy to guess.

Features:

➤ No ADS and No root required

➤ Simple to use, no manual required

➤ Supports Smartphones, Tablets

➤ Supports Android KitKat, Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat

➤ Good resource management

➤ No frills, run with minimum RAM and CPU

➤ No unnecessary function in the app (to enhance security)

➤ No Android Permission required, zero, none, period

➤ Safe and Privacy focused, no servers and DOES NOT connect to the Internet

➤ Only your password (and pray you must not forget) can unlock your secret text

➤ Check the permission required by other similar apps and you will agree that this is the BEST app for securing your text in comparison

Get it here on Google Play Store.

Have fun and God Bless.

Fortnite for Android will probably not use Google Play Store for distribution forever

Epic created a new trend by bypassing Google Play Store and the online tweeting may seal this trend

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Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games has accused Google of acting irresponsibly by exposing a flaw in the game’s security to score “cheap PR points.”

The game Fortnite finally came to Android phones this summer, and Epic Games decided not to host it through Google Play app store to avoid Google's 30% cut.

Very shortly after the release, a Google engineer publicly identified a weakness in the security of the game for Android. It is easy for Google to identify this weakness because they are in the business of supporting the Android app ecosystem.

Tim Sweeney said revealing the flaw so quickly did nothing but give hackers a chance to exploit it. He is wrong. Hackers are always looking for the latest craze and memes to piggy ride their malicious payload. This game is already the target once the Android version was announced.

Fortnite for Android will not use Google Play Store for distribution

Epic may create a new trend by bypassing Google Play Store

Epic Games CEO cites ‘economic efficiency’ of bypassing Google Play Store’s 30 percent cut.

After Pokemon, there is now Fortnite.

Apparently, to save on the 30 percent cut from Google, Epic Games will release this global phenomenon game direct from its official Fortnite website. The popularity of its game give Epic the power to decide the platform to launch its Android version and Android users will do whatever it takes to play from their Android devices.

Android users who are interested in Fortnite will have to enable a setting in their phones to allow for sideloading. Sideloading is the common term for installing Android applications without downloading directly from the Google Play Store. To enable this function,  go into the system settings and scroll down to Security. Inside this menu, you’ll see the Unknown sources option. Check the box, press OK, and you’re good to sideload any app.

How to Enable Sideloading in Android

As mentioned in a previous post, there is an established security ecosystem for Android based phones. How many users will leave their devices in this new setting? There are many malicious Android Apps (apk files) in the open and once a user accidentally click on links containing these apps, his device will be compromised.

This decision by Epic is not welcomed by security conscious people. Asking users to downgrade the security posture of their devices is not a good business idea. Indie developers or fledgling developers like us can only watch how this story will unfold. To distribute our apps and bypass Google similar to Epic is not a viable move. 

We would like to remind users who sideload Fortnite into their Android devices, to disable the setting after the game is downloaded.

Windows Malware on Android

New Windows Malware Sneaked Into Google Play

Our Quick Check App is updated to detect these apps

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks discovered 145 apps in the official Google Play Store that were infected by malicious Microsoft Windows executable files. These malicious files will not harm the Android phone but more testing will be required to conclude whether these files are meant for x86 Android. 

These malware may be transferred into a Microsoft Windows machine if the phone is connected by USB or Bluetooth for the purpose of debugging, syncing or updates.

These Apps were uploaded into Google Play Store by someone going with the name, odieapps. This developer had at least 145 apps in the store of which 92 apps were uploaded in June 2017 and 31 apps were uploaded in July 2017. That is 123 apps uploaded in two months! No normal person can develop application that fast and this is an anomaly that should be picked up by Google.

Previous cases on malware found in Google Play Store can be found here.