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10 Android settings that'll strengthen your security

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:30:00 -0800

You might not know it from all the panic-inducing headlines out there, but Android is actually packed with powerful and practical security features. Some are activated by default and protecting you whether you realize it or not, while others are more out of the way but equally deserving of your attention.

So stop wasting your time worrying about the Android malware monster du jour and which security company is using it to scare you into an unnecessary subscription, and take a moment instead to look through these far more impactful Android security settings — starting with the core elements and moving from there into some more advanced and easily overlooked options.

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SecuritySophos

Apple y Samsung multados por ralentizar sus móviles más viejos

Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:26:33 +0000

Como Apple y Samsung acaban de descubrir, a costa de sus arcas, hay una forma correcta y otra incorrecta de ofrecer actualizaciones de software a sus clientes. Según investigadores del anti trust italiano AGCM, la forma correcta de proveer las actualizaciones a iOS y Android es añadir nuevas funciones que mejoren la experiencia del usuario [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/Ik0XswHr1XI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Mobile Menace Monday: top five scariest mobile threats

Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000

In the spirit of this upcoming Halloween season, we thought we’d provide you with a list of the top five scariest mobile threats in our book.

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Stats make iOS a hard OS to ignore

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 03:00:00 -0700

The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system — iOS 12 — was released just a few weeks ago, and yet it’s already installed on 53% of relatively newer iPhones (introduced since September 2014) and 50% of all iPhones. Bottom line: It’s the fastest acceptance of any Apple OS.

This is more than a minimally interesting statistic. It illustrates the key difference between Apple mobile devices and Android mobile devices: Although there are more Android users on the globe, Apple’s users are much more of a community. That means many things from an Apple marketing perspective, but for IT, it means far greater security.

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