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Android, Symbian Malware on the Rise
Yes. You read that headline correctly. F-Secure is talking about the beleaguered and nearly defunct Symbian operating system, upon which Nokia halted nearly all development in February before...
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California Attorney General Fighting for Mobile Privacy Rights
UPDATE - In an attempt to reign in the tendency of indifference toward consumer privacy among mobile application developers, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today made public a list of...
View ArticleInfected Site Spreading SMS Android Malware
The website of a popular watch retailer is reportedly redirecting users that visit the site on Android-based devices to a number of malicious domains serving up premium rate SMS malware.read more
View ArticleThreats and Market Share Increase for Android, Decrease for Symbian
No real surprise that F-Secure’s fourth quarter threat report further accentuated the all-but-definite-reality that there is a direct correlation between a platform’s market share and the volume of...
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Features Conspire to Connect iPhones to Rogue Networks
Some iPhone users are vulnerable to having their devices automatically join rogue Wi-Fi networks because of a combination of an iOS feature that allows devices to reconnect to known networks and a...
View ArticleResearchers Say Accelerometers are Perfect for Pervasive Tracking
Mobile device accelerometers emit uniquely identifiable data that could be used to track users without permission.
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Fake antivirus – attack of the clones
Experts recently discovered a scam antivirus app on Google Play going by the name of Virus Shield. A distinct feature of this particular app was the fact that users had to pay for it - most fake AV can...
View ArticlePervasive OTA Carrier Controls Exploitable on a Massive Scale
Las Vegas - Researchers at the Black Hat security conference claimed in a presentation that they can exploit pervasive carrier controls to wrest complete control of billions of consumer devices.
View ArticleAndroid Malware Installs Pirated Assassin’s Creed App
A working, pirated version of the Assassin's Creed application for Android is bundled with malware, targeting users trying to download a free version of that game.
View ArticleMajority of 4G USB Modems, SIM Cards Exploitable
Researchers at the Chaos Computer Club conference in Hamburg presented research on the woeful state of security in 4G USB modems.
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