More than half a million Android users installed malware disguised as smartphone games—right from the Google Play store. Mainly posing as a driving game, the malware was found in as many as 13 apps, according to tweets from ESET security researcher Lukas Stefanko. Read more from TechRepublic…
Last month the consumer mobile app Timehop announced a security breach stemming from last December. A hacker gained access to their infrastructure and stole details on its users that included usernames, emails, telephone numbers and–worst of all–access keys for all 21 million users. Read more from TechRepublic…
Phishing attacks skyrocketed in the financial services industry and IT sector early this year, according to the Spam and Phishing in Q2 2018 report from Kaspersky Lab. Over a third (35.7%) of phishing attempts were in the financial services industry, with the IT sector coming in second at 13.83%, according …
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Social engineering scams make even the best security solutions useless, Microsoft said. It wants industry-wide collaboration to solve the problem. The scams, which involve tricking an unsuspecting user into paying a scammer to remove fake or nonexistent malware, are an attractive alternative to complicated coding and make online crime accessible …
Tech support scams rose by 24% in 2017, costing some victims thousands of dollarsRead More »
Here is another kind of phishing scam which is enabled by an obscure feature of Gmail called “the dots don’t matter”. If you have a Gmail account it is worth a read. Please educate your family and friends! Read more from James Fisher…
SpaceX is seeking to create a 4,425-satellite broadband network that the FCC believes will provide internet to underserved parts of America and the rest of the world. In spite of numerous complaints from other satellite companies, the FCC hailed the SpaceX Starlink satellite internet plan as the first of its …
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The latest release of Mozilla Firefox includes several privacy improvements, including blocking untrusted sites from using the camera, microphone, and location data. Firefox 59 has been released to the general public, and with it come numerous privacy improvements. Read more from Tech Republic…
Someone on Reddit described how he was the victim of a very sophisticated social engineering attack. Wow, this is crafty. This is the story!: I have different passwords for every website I log into, 2-factor authentication when possible; I thought I knew all the scams and could spot them a …
The leak of Apple’s iBoot source code onto GitHub is likely to turn older devices into a toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities. If you’re running an older iPhone or iPad that’s stuck on iOS 9, then you need to plan some sort of escape strategy following this week’s leak of Apple’s …