Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:43:17 +0000
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| Loapi Trojan discovered on Android devices—a downloader, dropper, adware app, and SMS Trojan all in one—could literally blow up your phone. Read on to learn how to protect against it. Categories: Tags: AndroidloapiMobiletrojan |
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Read moreCredit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:00:00 +0000
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| Adups, the same China-based company caught collecting an abundance of user data and creating a backdoor on mobile devices in 2016, has another trick up its sleeve. Categories: Tags: adupsAndroidcom.adups.fota.sysopercom.fw.upgrade.sysoperFWUpgradeProviderMobiletriple mUpgradeSys |
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 06:47:00 -0800
Apple and Cisco have struck yet another blow for enterprise IT. They know that iOS is the most secure mobile solution, but that’s not everything because mobile threats are incredibly complex these days.
Here’s a scenario: You work in an enterprise with perhaps 1,000 other employees. One morning, perhaps 50 of you woke to find an authentic-seeming email in your in-box that requests you click on a link to update some system related to the work you do. While many employees remembered not to click on that link, a small number did click. No one thought too much of the email — spam is frequent and most just thought the mail was aimed at them.
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 06:42:00 -0800
The expression “safe as houses” will become a thing of the past if tech firms don’t get connected home security right, and the need to be incredibly watchful was visible in Apple’s latest security blunder this week.
The latest iOS 11.2 update held a zero-day vulnerability attackers could exploit to control smart home devices, including connected locks, 9to5Mac explains. While the vulnerability was difficult to exploit, and Apple has acted very swiftly to close this security gap, its existence exposes the risk of smart homes.
Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 02:00:00 -0800
The world of security is getting super weird. And the solutions may be even weirder than the threats.
I told you last week that some of the biggest companies in technology have been caught deliberately introducing potential vulnerabilities into mobile operating systems and making no effort to inform users.
One of those was introduced into Android by Google. In that case, Android had been caught transmitting location data that didn’t require the GPS system in a phone, or even an installed SIM card. Google claimed that it never stored or used the data, and it later ended the practice.
Credit to Author: Gleb Malygin| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:30:33 +0000
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| Google initiates their plans to implement new changes in Chrome to defend against annoying web redirects. Categories: Tags: adschromeGooglepop-up blockerredirectssafe browsing |
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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 02:00:00 -0800
Your smartphone may contain secret “features” that leave you vulnerable.
I’m not talking about accidental design flaws that hackers might exploit. Security issues have always existed. They represent a cat-and-mouse game between malicious actors, who try to break smartphone security, and the smartphone industry, which tries to identify and fix the accidental vulnerabilities that make phones susceptible to hackers. Nothing new about that.
What I’m talking about is a new phenomenon — a trend we’ve learned about only in the past few weeks.
I’m talking about design decisions made by smartphone companies that cause phones to do things invisibly, behind the scenes and behind your back, that make phones potentially less secure.
Credit to Author: Tiziana Carboni| Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 06:09:07 +0000
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