Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including all things Android: the crypto weakness, the full disk encryption bypass, and new malware, Hummingbad, which impacts the mobile operating system. The three also discuss the TP-Link router fiasco. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_July_8_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

The default implementation for KeyStore, the system in Android designed to store user credentials and cryptographic keys, is broken, researchers say. In a an academic paper published this week, researchers argue that the particular encryption scheme that KeyStore uses fails to protect the integrity of keys and could be exploited to allow an attacker to modify...