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Android, as we are all aware, is a Linux-based operating system which was initially developed by Android Inc. and was later purchased by Google. It was designed for touch screen devices like smartphones, tablets, cameras, set-top boxes, etc… and has reached the hands of millions of consumers. Over a period of time, operating systems like Windows and Linux have matured against threats, thereby diverting the hackers towards newer targets like handheld devices. Millions of Android applications are downloaded from the Google Play store by users, thereby exposing end users’ email ids, banking details, sensitive details and messaging content due to insecure coding practices. The users are either unaware or trust the apps to protect their sensitive data against theft.
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This tool is designed to help the many smartphone owners who aren't protected against mobile security threats. To use this tool, choose your mobile operating system below and then follow the 10 customized steps to secure your mobile device. More about the Smartphone Security Checker.
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"Attackers have expanded their attacks beyond the Windows platform to include Mac OS X and Android. 27 Percent of All Cybercrime Linked to the ‘Blackhole’ Exploit Kit", Sophos said. Even though the overall market share for Mac OS X remains small compared to other platforms, the number of Mac threats are growing as more users switch. Flashback, the malware that reportedly infected hundreds of thousands of Apple systems in April was the largest mass attack this year, but it's not the only Mac malware out there. In a typical week, SophosLabs detects 4,900 pieces of OS X malware on Mac computers. ===> In a snapshot of Mac malware detected over a one-week period in August, SophosLab detected various variants of fake antivirus, codecs and Flash player. <===
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Sécurité Mac : XMCO actu-secu [pdf]
Most people are participating in rogue IT without even realizing it. By definition, rogue IT is the unmanaged hardware and software that employees bring into their offices, connect to employers’ networks and use for professional productivity on personal time. At first, it doesn’t sound so bad. By allowing employees to connect to the Wi-Fi with their own devices, companies avoid the cost of providing the hardware. But as we learned from the BYOD toolkit from CIO.gov, BYOD programs aren’t profitable if they are uncontrolled, because problems, like the ones we’ll discuss below, arise.
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Show of hands: How many of you have sat in front of a computer and typed your name into a web browser? Don’t be shy. You can admit it. With so much access in so many places, who could blame you for wanting to know where and in what context your name appears online? The practice has been dubbed “ego surfing,” but as this Backgroundcheck.org infographic posted to online tech site MakeUseOf shows us, searching for one’s name on the web is also a lesson in self preservation — one students and teachers should heed if they want to keep their reputations, and their online identities, intact. Do yourself a solid and take five minutes to complete the Google Yourself Challenge. What you find about yourself might surprise you.
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Call it Invasion of the iPhone Snatchers: a new FinFisher-based spyware is built to infect iPhones and iPads (and Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone gadgets too) in order to take over the device completely — all unbeknownst to the user. The smartphones and tablets will innocently appear to be themselves, but in reality the mobile malware is working in the background to track the device’s location, monitor activity and intercept communications including emails, voice calls and text messages.
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The scandal involving the Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), David Petraeus, shocked the nation.
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On the second-to-last Monday of 2010, Brian Byrd was playing video poker on his Dell Inspiron laptop when someone knocked on the door of his home in Casper, Wyoming. The visitor, who drove a truck from the local Aaron's rent-to-own store that furnished the PC five months earlier, said the 25-year-old Byrd was behind in his payments and demanded he pay up at once. He then brandished a picture that was about to cause a national privacy uproar. The image showed Byrd on his home couch using the very laptop in question to play online poker. The employee was also privy to a screenshot of the website Byrd's PC was displaying the moment the photo was surreptitiously taken, along with keystrokes he was entering while visiting a website. When Byrd demanded an explanation, the employee, identified in a police report as 24-year-old Christopher Mendoza, said he wasn't supposed to answer. But he went on to disclose that the PC contained software that allowed Aaron's employees to track its physical location and remotely activate its webcam and capture screenshots and keystrokes. Mendoza, according to court records, left the premises after Byrd produced a copy of a receipt showing the laptop had been paid for in full on October 1.
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Platforms like Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter do provide strong emotional benefits by default. The question becomes in what ways and at what times. Understanding acute emotional cycles might allow these same platforms to achieve greater scale (not so much upward, but horizontal) such that they can make intrinsic pivots. In other words, expanding upon their emotional benefits could provide them and their users far deeper value.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Jack Patterson, Dennis T OConnor, Gust MEES, Gianfranco D'Aversa, Louise Robinson-Lay, Rosário Durão, Fred Zimny, janlgordon, Sakulsri Srisaracam
Tests show just how easy it is for data sniffers to send and receive messages in the name of other WhatsApp users. ests performed by The H's associates at heise Security have found that popular texting alternative WhatsApp is easily hacked using freely available tools. Anyone using WhatsApp on a public Wi-Fi network risks having their data sniffed and their account used to send and receive messages. Once hacked, there is no way to restore account security – attackers will be able to continue to use the hacked account at their discretion.
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What do Stuxnet, Duqu, Gauss, Mahdi, Flame, Wiper, and Shamoon have in common? Read this blog post by Elinor Mills on Security & Privacy.
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