- Android Malware Eavesdrops on Users, Uses Google+ as Disguise
Last week, we reported on ANDROIDOS_NICKISPY.A and ANDROIDOS_NICKISPY.B, Android malware that recorded phone calls made from infected devices then sent stolen information to a remote site. This week, we saw another Android malware with the same code structure as ANDROIDOS_NICKISPY.A. Like the latter, this does not display an icon and executes similar routines, save for some modifications. [...]
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Android Malware Eavesdrops on Users, Uses Google+ as Disguise
- Malware Automates Hacking
A lot of the developments that occurred in the computing world in the past years involved the automation of day-to-day tasks. These developments have made peoples’ lives so much easier, causing the development of a dependency on them. Paralleled by innovations, however, is abuse, as cybercriminals continually employ them in malicious schemes with a single [...]
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- No Excuses When It Comes to Data Security
When news broke earlier this week that some Citibank Japan customers’ information leaked, many of the bank’s customers probably thought, “Again!?!” But this is not a rare occurrence these days. This time around, it wasn’t even Citibank’s fault; one of the companies it outsources some services to was at fault. This is the second data [...]
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- Updates on the SK Comms Data Breach
Last week, we discussed the SK Communications data breach where a large number of user accounts in South Korea were exposed. The scope appears to be bigger than initially reported, as ESTsoft, a South Korean company that develops software (including antivirus, compression utility, and other software), came forward with a public notice disclosing that one [...]
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- Love Trap Android Malware Found in Third-Party App Stores
We recently found an Android malware that comes off as a variety of applications in a China-based third-party app store. The samples we were able to acquire came in the guise of a love test app, an e-book reader, or a location tracker. It is immediately noticeable that the said apps do more than these [...]
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- Two Critical Among 13 Microsoft Security Bulletins for August Patch Tuesday
This month, 13 is a(n) (un)lucky number as Microsoft released 13 security bulletins to resolve 22 vulnerabilities for today’s August Patch Tuesday. This month’s bulletins include fixes for reported bugs in Internet Explorer, Windows, Office, and Virtual Studio, among others. Two of these bulletins have been deemed “critical” by Microsoft, such as that with five undisclosed [...]
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Two Critical Among 13 Microsoft Security Bulletins for August Patch Tuesday
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This description bothers me: “Internet Explorer 8 is the latest version of the familiar Web browser that you are most comfortable using.”