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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About 200 Android applications currently hosted on Google Play create spoofed SMS messages on the devices they are installed on, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Symantec. This technique can theoretically be used ...
An application privacy report by Juniper Networks’ Mobile Threat Center (MTC) indicates that permissions and capabilities in apps could expose sensitive and personal data in mobile devices. A wider group of application developers ...
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A U.S. congressional committee appeared to come away still in doubt about the security of networking equipment from Chinese firms Huawei Technologies and ZTE after holding a Thursday hearing in which the two companies tried to dispel ...
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China has started blocking SlideShare, a document sharing service recently acquired by LinkedIn, making the site inaccessible to users in the country. "It appears that Internet users in China are not currently able to access SlideShare. ...
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PDF Technology Preferred by over 130 Million Users is Now Available on Apple Mobile Devices Foxit Corporation, a leading provider of solutions for reading, editing, creating, organizing, and securing PDF documents, today announced the ...
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Security company Onapsis released on Wednesday a product that allows intrusion detection systems to recognize attacks against SAP applications holding critical financial and business data. The product, called Onapsis IPS, is a collection ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has imposed a monetary penalty of 175,000 on an NHS Trust in Torquay after the sensitive details of over 1,000 employees were published accidentally on the Trust’s website. Staff at ...
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Cloud storage provider Dropbox has confirmed that usernames and passwords stolen from other websites were used to sign in to a small number of Dropbox accounts. "A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account ...
Investment bank Investec sees social media as part of the insider threat to information security, but has implemented policies and technologies to make it work. “Staff members are probably one of the biggest threats,” David ...
Glasgow City Council has been slammed for losing more than 700 laptops and PCs in a probe into the body’s security malpractice. The council has lost 256 unencrypted laptops and nearly 450 PCs. It also has a further 541 unencrypted ...
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Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for outages to several government websites last night. Various Twitter accounts that belong to the group were awash with the claims yesterday,including Anonymous Operations,an account ...
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TITUS,a leading provider of enterprise information security and compliance solutions,is showcasing new information protection solutions through centralized policy this week at Microsoft TechEd North America 2012 in Orlando,Florida.TITUS,a ...
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TITUS,the leading provider of security and data governance solutions,has been selected for the second consecutive year as a finalist for the Microsoft Public Sector-Public Safety and National Security Partner of the Year Award. "We are ...