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Users on social networking site Pinterest are bombarded with scams touting weight loss miracles, titillating photos, and money-making schemes.
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Is Your Phone Is Infected?Here's How to Tell...
I don't think it's far-fetched to say that most people have no idea if their mobile devices have been infected with malware, simply because they don't think mobile malware even exists (call it the Mac syndrome?).
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Instagram, the popular free photo sharing app for iOS devices, is now available for download for Android users on Google Play and Instagram's website.
Unfortunately, a rogue malicious version of it is also being pushed onto Russian Android users, offered from a webpage that mimics the legitimate one:
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Researchers at NQ Mobile, working alongside researchers at North Carolina State University, have discovered Android malware that is controlled via SMS that can do a number of things on the compromised device including recording calls and and surrounding noise.
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News has recently surfaced over an Android and iOS security hole, but that story has been mixed up as to where the vulnerability exists. Siting problems with Facebook's mobile ... Via Gust MEES
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Security researchers from Sophos, have spotted a bogus Chinese game, that’s actually a trojan horse gathering sensitive information from infected devices, next to sending premium-rate SMS messages.
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Experts from a cyber security firm, CrowdStrike, have reportedly discovered a flaw in a component of smartphones powered by Google's Android OS. Apparently, this flaw can allow hackers to gain control of these devices.
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The Low Orbit Ion Cannon version Android...
Des Anonymous diffusent une version Android du Low Orbit Ion Cannon, un logiciel qui permet de bloquer des sites Internet. Des internautes, qui s'annoncent comme des Anonymous, ont mis en ligne une nouvelle version de LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon), un outil DDOS qui permet de bloquer un site Internet via un grand nombre de connexions au serveur ciblé.
L'outil d'origine, porté en JavaScript, permet d'effectuer un DoS directement depuis un navigateur web.
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Wir sind dem Datenklau auf den Grund gegangen und verraten, welche Infos schnüffelnde Apps preisgeben, wer diese erhält und was die Datendiebe damit anfangen können.
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Turn on these four settings to maximize the security of your Android smartphone.
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Besser spät als nie – ein Automatismus scannt ab sofort im Android Market eingereichte Apps nach Schadsoftware.
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Wir werfen einen Blick auf die aktuellen Marktanteile bei den mobilen Betriebssystemen und mobilen Browsern für Smartphones und Tablet-PCs. Die Gewinner und Verlierer des Monats Januar 2012.
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Das Sicherheits-Unternehmen Symantec warnt vor 13 Android-Apps, bei denen es sich meist um Spiele handelt. Sie sind mit dem Trojaner Android.Counterclank verseucht, der den unerwünschten Prozess apperhand auf dem Androiden startet.
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AVG: Android Malware Is Pushed via Twitter and Facebook...
“We detected a big increase in the use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to target Android users. Cyber criminals are finding it very convenient to distribute their malware straight to a mobile device via these networks,” said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer at AVG.
“The growth of the Android platform has been phenomenal, which has not gone unnoticed with cyber criminals who have discovered it to be a lucrative target for their malware. In 2011, Google had to remove over 100 malicious apps from the official Android market, Google Play.”
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In an attempt to take advantage of the popularity of free photo-sharing app Instagram among smartphone users, malware writers have created fake Instagram...
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Recently we discovered a new Android Trojan in the official Google Play market that displays a video downloaded from the Internet–but only if some sensitive information is previously sent to a remote server.
The malicious applications are designed for Japanese users and display “trailers” of upcoming video games for Android.
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A serious bug was discovered recently in the Facebook and Dropbox applications on iOS and Android that could cause users to have their private information stolen.
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Auf Twitter haben die Entwickler des beliebten Medienplayers vor einer Android-App gewarnt, die sich als VLC Player ausgibt.
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AV-TEST GmbH - ===> The Independent IT-Security Institute... <===
Over the past year, the popularity of the Android system has led to a huge increase in the distribution of Android malware (see fig. 1).
This malware is mainly distributed in markets operated by third parties, but even the Google Android Market cannot guarantee that all of its listed applications do not contain any threats.
===> Users should no longer blindly trust all apps. <===
A large range of protection programmes that can help to identify dangerous apps and remove them from a user's device are now available.
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Welche Gefahren lauern auf Nutzer von Android-Telefonen? Sind Viren ein Thema? Wie schützen Sie Ihr Telefon vor Fremden und Dieben? Wir beantworten diese Fragen und geben Ihnen Tipps für den sicheren Umgang mit Android.
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Facebook app used to circumvent Google’s ‘Bouncer’ Android Market scanner.
It seems it didn’t take the bad guys long to find a way around Google’s ‘Bouncer‘ security scanner for the Android Market. Rather than uploading malware to the Android Market, security firm Sophos has discovered new malware that spreads via the Facebook app.
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Android malware samples had increased from 400 to 13,302 in six months.
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Help Net Security is a daily updated information security news web site.
DOWNLOAD ISSUE 33 HERE (February 2012)
Securing Android: Think outside the box
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Even though most malicious Android apps are served from third-party app markets, cyber crooks occasionally manage to disseminate some via Google's official Android Market.
Codenamed "Bouncer", it scans both newly added and old apps in search for potentially malicious software, and analyzes developer accounts in order to prevent repeat-offending developers from returning with new malicious offerings.
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Malware makers are turning to quite sophisticated tricks to disguise the true purpose of rogue applications.
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