The second quarter of 2012 saw the biggest increase in malware samples detected in the past four years, says security firm McAfee. Researchers detected a 1.5 million sample increase in malware since Q1 2012, according to the firm’s ...
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McAfee is expanding its mobile security software for Android tablets and smartphones, as it sees an increase in threats targeting Android devices, the Intel subsidiary announced on Monday. The new Mobile Security software has features ...
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More than two-thirds of smartphone owners have not yet adopted mobile banking apps because of security concerns, a survey has revealed. By contrast, only 14% of those surveyed by security firm Metaforic said that security concerns were ...
Kaspersky Lab has outlined key security trends of 2012 and presented their views on the core threats of 2013. The most notable predictions for the next year include the continued rise of targeted attacks, cyber-espionage and nation-state ...
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Shopping or banking online depends on trust. Individuals interact with sites that they trust, and sites have to trust the person who is transacting with them. Many online banking sites are turning to two-factor authentication to confirm ...
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High-risk and dangerous applications targeting users of Google’s Android platform increased from nearly 30,000 in June to almost 175,000 in September, according to Trend Micro’s security roundup report for the third quarter of ...
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Security threats to your mobile device such as malware, fraudulent lures such as SMS spoofing, and toll fraud, are all becoming favourites of digital crooks as people move away from using PCs and toward smartphones and tablets, according to ...
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As we predicted, you may not be getting your hands on a new iMac this side of Christmas. MacBidouille has spoken to retail sources in France and reports that expectations that 21in iMacs would arrive on 27 November (the day after ...
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BitDefender Labs has discovered Android malware that regularly broadcasts the location of the infected mobile device to a remote server. What the malware creators intend to do with the privacy-invading information is not clear. The app ...
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Android’s 2012 security overhaul hasn’t stopped the volume of global threats targeting the mobile OS continuing to rise at an alarming rate, F-Secure’s latest mobile threat report has found. The company noticed 51,447 ...
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The amount of mobile Android malware has surged this year, from a count of 30,000 malware specimens in June to almost 175,000 last month, according to Trend Micro’s Security Roundup report for the third quarter of this year. ...
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Android's own malware scanner only detects a fraction of threats to the Google device operating system, according to the results of one researcher. A short report published by Xuxian Jiang, professor of computer science at North Carolina ...
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Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that almost all browsers currently used in smartphones and tablets are unsafe, so much so that even cyber-security experts are unable to detect when they are visiting ...
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In its November 2012 Blue Coat Mobility Study,the company surveyed 350 respondents and found that most organizations allow employees access to company email(83 percent)and instant messaging(56 percent)on personal devices,but only a fraction ...
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Global fraud gang Operation High Roller – which targeted European finance firms earlier this year – has spread in the last three months to countries including the US, according to McAfee's latest threat report. Operation High ...
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