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Google reminds website owners to move to HTTPS before October deadline

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:36:57 +0000

To encourage website owners and service providers to move to HTTPS, Google began sending out emails to remind them that their sites will be marked as insecure if they don’t comply. This is the latest step in the search giant’s long-term effort of creating a safer web experience for every user.

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Tech Firms Team Up to Take Down ‘WireX’ Android DDoS Botnet

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:06:08 +0000

A half dozen technology and security companies — some of them competitors — issued the exact same press release today. This unusual level of cross-industry collaboration caps a successful effort to dismantle ‘WireX,’ an extraordinary new crime machine comprising tens of thousands of hacked Android mobile devices that was used this month to launch a series of massive cyber attacks. Experts involved in the takedown warn that WireX marks the emergence of a new class of attack tools that are more challenging to defend against and thus require broader industry cooperation to defeat.

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A week in security (August 21 – August 27)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:38:08 +0000

A compilation of security news and blog posts from the 21st of August to the 27th of August. Big news from Malwarebytes was the introduction real-time protection for Mac and Android.

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Mobile Menace Monday: Implications of Google Play Protect

Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:00:21 +0000

Along with the recent release of Google’s new OS Android 8.0 Oreo, they also released a new security suite known as Google Play Protect.

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