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Credit to Author: Rupali Parate| Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:43:48 +0000
Quick Heal Security Lab has spotted a couple of applications on play store which hide themselves after installation and display full screen ads after specific time interval. This trend is used by most of the developers these days to earn profit by displaying ads. Even if users want to uninstall…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:33:18 +0000
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| A round up of the security news from August 13 – 19, including an in-depth discussion of what drives the average cybercriminal to crime. Categories: Tags: a week in securityInstagramIntelweb cache poisoningweek in security |
The post A week in security (August 13 – August 19) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 23:35:40 +0000
The sextortion email scam last month that invoked a real password used by each recipient and threatened to release embarrassing Webcam videos almost certainly was not the work of one criminal or even one group of criminals. Rather, it’s likely that additional spammers and scammers piled on with their own versions of the phishing email after noticing that some recipients were actually paying up. The truth is we may never find out who’s responsible, but it’s still fun to follow some promising early leads and see where they take us.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Tarek Boumegoura| Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 13:00:13 +0000
In a previous post in this blog series, I described how electrical fires can be caused by installations that have deteriorated over time, or from hazards due to electrical systems… Read more »
The post Stopping electrical fires using arc flash and arc fault protection appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 14:40:21 +0000
In security news this week, Apple and Facebook beef, Reality Winner gets sentenced, facial recognition at the airport, and more.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000
Your phone number was never meant to be your identity. Now that it effectively is, we’re all at risk.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 20:51:46 +0000
For years, Iran has run its own secret infowar—running a remarkably similar playbook as Russia.
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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 03:00:00 -0700
Disinformation was in the news again this week. Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft said they removed accounts linked to Russian and Iranian disinformation campaigns.
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Facebook said that 652 Facebook pages and groups run by the Iranian and Russian governments were deleted because they were found to be “misleading,” by which it meant that the pages and social profiles presented themselves as something other than what they really were.