Write two paragraphs for each disscusions
first discussion
A (in)famous case of mobile app forensics is a review of the MY2022 app created by the organizers of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Review the Citizen Lab report on the app and the GitHub repo with an attempted disassembly by a different, independent researcher. Address the following questions:
What are the flaws in both of these analyses of the Beijing Olympics app, MY2022? What are the limits of what a researcher can glean from app forensics?
second discussion
Review the following links for background on how satellite downlink can be used to hide location in this Kaspersky research on Turla Hiding in the Sky
Address the following questions:
How was the attacker able to hide in this scenario?
If you were monitoring data breach, how could you detect exfiltration on broadcast wireless like a satellite downlink?
third discussions
Review Roger Piqueras Jover’s ShmooCon presentation on 5G security
Address the following question:
Improvements in security from one generation to the next are hindered by the requirement to support legacy devices, allowing downgrade attacks to endanger entire device ecosystems. How do you propose to measure and mitigate the risk of downgrade attacks in mobile devices, cellular networks or in other areas of technology?
If you want to know more about the issue and Google’s likely solution, see this Real World Crypto 2023 presentation by Yomna Nasser