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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:40:19 +0000

In the first part of this two-part blog, we outlined the kinds of banking and buying you can do on your mobile device, but also the things to watch out for. You might have noticed that our cautionary notes center around four threat vectors you need to track to stay safe: device, app, network, and…

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Security Sophos

February 14, 2019 admin

Old Phantom Crypter upends malicious document tools

Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:10:42 +0000

As the new year began, the makers of tools that generate the malicious documents used in social engineering spam attacks threw out the rule book and started fresh with an entirely new batch of Office exploits<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/l3gQLk92YYk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Kaspersky Security

February 14, 2019 admin

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 78

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:51:46 +0000

In this episode of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, the team takes a look at hacks in OKCupid, the acquisition of Eero, and connected refrigerators.

QuickHeal Security

February 14, 2019 admin

This Valentine fall for true love not for fake online dating apps

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:36:04 +0000

Valentine Day is that special time of the year when people are busy celebrating the essence of love. However, on the darker side, it is also a time when cyber criminals are looking to cash on your hunt for the love of your life. So, just in case you are…

ComputerWorld Independent

February 14, 2019 admin

All about Android upgrades (and why they're late) | TECH(talk)

Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 03:00:00 -0800

It’s not exactly news that Android upgrades almost always take a lo-o-o-o-o-ng time to roll out to most users. As in months. Often, many months. Sometimes more than a year.

Sometimes never.

(There is an exception: Google delivers new versions of Android to its Pixel line right away, and did just that with the release of Android 9.0 (Pie) last fall.)

It’s now been six months since Pie arrived, which means it’s time for Computerworld blogger JR Raphael’s comprehensive look at how device-makers are doing when it comes to upgrades.

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Independent Krebs

February 13, 2019 admin

Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 05:37:06 +0000

Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried to frame various online gaming sites as the culprits. In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked.

Security Wired

February 13, 2019 admin