One-quarter of more than 400,000 Android apps examined in the Google Play store pose security risks to mobile-device users,according to new research. SECURITY:Android malware market exploding,says Trend Micro Security vendor Bit9 ...
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Google's Android mobile operating system(OS)is under siege by attackers,with malware and information stealing adware targeting the platform up 483%in the last quarter. While Apple's relatively rigorous approach to vetting apps before ...
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Despite an increasing number of successful cyberattacks launched by East Asian hackers against companies and government institutions around the world in recent years,Eastern European cybercriminals remain a more sophisticated threat to the ...
Cyber criminals from eastern Europe pose just as big a threat as their more high-profile east Asian rivals, says security firm Trend Micro. Research has shown that east European hackers tend to use custom-built, highly-complex malware. ...
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Cloud computing,IT consumerisation and the evolving threat landscape are forcing IT departments to rethink security. Analyst Gartner has predicted context-aware security will be the preferred method for IT to evolve enterprise security to ...
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Nearly half of enterprises that allow employee-owned devices to connect to a company's network have experienced a data breach, a study has revealed. Most of these companies reacted by restricting data access rights (45%) or installing ...
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Trojan malware has hit 100,000 devices using the Google Android operating system(OS)in China,say security researchers. The Trojan,dubbed MMarketPay.A,is designed to purchase apps and content without the consent of the device user,running ...
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LinkedIn has confirmed that "some" of the stolen passwords posted online by a hacker correspond to accounts on the professional networking site. The confirmation came after reports that 6.5 million encrypted stolen passwords had been ...
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