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Tag: malware
Family of girl slain over iPhone lobbies for ‘kill switch’
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton…
Google’s Sundar Pichai: Android not designed to be safe; if I wrote malware, I’d target Android, too
Responding to a question about malware on the Android platform…
Malicious Android apps spike nearly 400 percent in in Google Play store
Malicious Android apps have grown 388 percent from 2011 to 2013…
Self-replicating ‘TheMoon’ worm crawls into Belkin’s Linksys routers
A self-replicating program is infecting Linksys routers by exploiting…
OSX/CoinThief trojan: Manual identification and removal instructions
OSX/CoinThief has been distributed under four different names so far…
New Bitcoin-stealing trojan, ‘OSX/CoinThief.A,’ targets OS X users
A new Trojan Horse called OSX/CoinThief.A targets…
Kaspersky: Android banking apps most at risk of virus
Banking applications on Android phones are most vulnerable to cyber crime…
Apple’s Phil Schiller tweets link to another security report criticizing Android
Last year, Apple executive Phil Schiller tweeted a link to a research report…
Cisco: Android the target of 99 percent of world’s mobile malware
Google’s Android is the target of 99 percent of the world’s mobile malware
Yahoo on malware from ads: Macintosh unaffected
Mac users unaffected…
Attorneys General for New York and San Francisco strongly urge iPhone and iPad users to download iOS 7
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman…
What ate Microsoft is eating Google and Samsung
Apple’s carefully cultivated, highly orchestrated, fine-tuned ecosystem…
First case of Android Trojan spreading via mobile botnets discovered
Isn’t that special?
Samsung: Has the Apple product cloner lost its way?
You only need to scratch the surface to see signs Samsung…
U.S. DHS, FBI warn of malware threats to Android mobile devices
In an unclassified roll call release for police, fire, ems, and security personnel…
Android app malware rates skyrocket 40 percent in last quarter
Mobile malware in the Android ecosystem has skyrocketed…
First malware found in wild that exploits Android app signing flaw
Just three weeks after Bluebox Security first announced…
S.F. district attorney optimistic over Apple, Samsung progress on anti-theft tech for smartphones
Apple’s Activation Lock was tested…
U.S. State and federal governments test Apple’s iOS 7 activation lock feature
Apple and Samsung’s latest smartphones will face the scrutiny of state and federal prosecutors…
Give me back my iPhone! I tried Android, but went back to my iPhone because most Android phones are crap
The worst thing about Android phones isn’t the crapware…
OS X users hit by ransomware websites posing as FBI notices; easy fix
Rather than a sophisticated hijack of the actual browser software, the ransomware is merely a simple webpage…
‘Master key’ to Android phones found; can give attackers access to almost any Android phone
A ‘master key’ that could give cyber-thieves unfettered access to Android…
Mobile Threats Report: Android accounts for 92% of all mobile malware
Juniper Networks today released its third annual Mobile Threats Report…
Mobile malware exploding, but only for Android
Google’s Android, which researchers now say is resembling Windows on the desktop PC…
ACLU files complaint with U.S. FTC: Mobile carriers fail to provide security for Android phones
The America Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission…
Securing Macs in the enterprise
If you’ve ever consulted with a computer security expert…
Mac Flashback trojan hacker may have been identified, researcher says FBI will likely investigate
The Flashback trojan is one of the most successful attacks on Mac computers…
F-Secure: Android accounted for 96% of all mobile malware in Q4 2012
According to a new report released today from security specialists F-Secure…
Google Play ‘flaw’ puts users’ personal data on display
Every time you purchase an app on Google Play, your name, address and email…
Malicious virus shuttered U.S. power plant, says Department of Homeland Security
A computer virus attacked a turbine control system at a U.S. power company…
The Google Tax: Android phones hit by cyber thieves’ spamming malware
Cyber-thieves are using games to turn Android phones into spam-sending drones…
FBI issues warning over Android malware attacks
Two malware attacks illustrate the dangers of a wide-open development environment…
Meet the Android app that secretly records your environment and reconstructs it as 3D model for malicious users to browse
An entirely new class of ‘visual malware’ capable of recording and reconstructing…
Researchers discover serious flaw in Android app security, say HTC and Samsung ignore issue
Researchers led by North Carolina State associate professor Xuxian Jiang…
Windows PCs: Now pre-loaded with viruses!
Cybercriminals have opened a new front in their battle to infect computers with malware – PC production lines…
New Mac trojan hints at ties to high-priced commercial hacking toolkit
French security firm Intego discovered a new Mac Trojan horse this week…
Warning: New Java trojan targets Apple’s OS X along with Windows, Linux
A new form of browser-based cross-platform malware can give hackers remote access…
Adobe issues emergency update to fix cross-platform Flash exploit
Adobe on Friday released a security bulletin that announced an emergency update…
Apple’s Tim Cook wins where Steve Jobs failed: Oracle takes over Java updates for OS X
Although Steve Jobs tried for years to get out from under the Java ball and chain…
Kaspersky CEO claims Apple is ’10 years behind Microsoft’ on security
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of security company Kaspersky Lab…
Sophos: Over 20% of Macs carry Windows malware but only 2.7% harbor Mac OS X malware
A new report by security specialists Sophos…
