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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 05:05:00 -0700

The world of grey IT means both enterprise and consumer users frequently use popular social networking service Facebook on their devices. It makes sense, then, to stay safe while using it.

Manage Facebook Security settings

First things first: Always use a complex passcode with your account and do make sure to set up two-factor authentication.

Now that you’ve done that, you’ll find Facebook’s own privacy settings live inside Privacy Shortcuts in the iOS app. Get to these by tapping the three-line icon at bottom right of the Facebook app and scrolling down to Privacy Shortcuts. The first thing you should do is run Privacy check-up (at the top of the page). Facebook will guide you through your existing settings, change them for maximum privacy, and delete any Facebook apps you’ve forgotten about or no longer use.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 12, 2018 admin

IT beware: University finds new 4G security holes

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:25:00 -0700

IT has enough to worry about with traditional data breach issues, but now researchers from Purdue University and the University of Iowa have found quite a few new security holes in the popular 4G mobile networks.

The potentially worst hole detailed in the study is an authentication synchronization failure attack. The danger? It allows bad guys to read incoming and outgoing messages from an employee, permits “stealthy denial” of selected services and “location of history poisoning,” which simply means it can manipulate location ready to give false information to systems using location for identity authentication.

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ComputerWorld Independent

March 6, 2018 admin

Feds move to secure mobile devices with machine learning, biometrics

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 03:24:00 -0800

Amid the growing use of mobile devices for work by federal employees, U.S. defense and intelligence agencies are fast adopting biometrics and other alternative ways of computers, smartphones and tablets, according to a new report.

More than 90% of federal agency IT officials in an online survey said their organizations provide secure mobile access for work-issued devices, but less than 20% support workers’ personal devices to access most agency systems. Forty percent of those same officials voiced concern about securing personal devices, according to the online survey of federal government IT and cybersecurity officials.

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MalwareBytes Security

March 5, 2018 admin

Mobile Menace Monday: Olympics app has more ads than games

Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:00:00 +0000

An app claiming to live stream the 2018 Winter Olympics had a short run on Google Play before being flagged for adware.

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Tags: adware Android mobile ads olympics triple m

MalwareBytes Security

February 13, 2018 admin

Kotlin-based malicious apps penetrate Google market

Credit to Author: Gleb Malygin| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:00:00 +0000

New malicious apps appear in Google Play abusing Kotlin, the “safest” official programming language for the Android.

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Tags: Android Google Play kotlin malware

ComputerWorld Independent

February 12, 2018 admin

Managing open-source mobile security and privacy for activists worldwide | Salted Hash Ep 18

Nathan Freitas, who heads The Guardian Project, talks with host Steve Ragan and senior writer J.M. Porup about the group's easy-to-use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices being used around the world.