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Sign of the social scam times
The article said anybody can use the same template application to create a Facebook thread in minutes. In fact, another scam based on the news was circulating last week, this one following the Norway attacks. Facebook was able to clean those out quickly, only to have the Winehouse scam replace it.
Bottom line: When breaking news hits, only click on news sources coming from URLs you know and trust.
ALERT: Amy Winehouse, Norway Scams Hit Facebook
Continue reading: ALERT: Amy Winehouse, Norway Scams Hit Facebook [All Facebook]
So here we have an article about how Android apps — 8 percent of them or so — apparently leak personal information. From the article:
…they have studied around 10,000 Android apps and have found that 800 of them are leaking private information of the user to an unauthorized server.
Now, I’m sure the real data is going to come out in the talk, which I won’t see since I’m not going to Blackhat… so maybe my point here is moot. However, I’m wondering about the “unauthorized” part. I mean, philosophically.
It’s a question that I come back to again… Continue reading: Android apps: leaking? Or working as designed?
Malware gone (via) Google; see the full post (and/or this WSJ article) for details
As we work to protect our users and their information, we sometimes discover unusual patterns of activity. Recently, we found some unusual search traffic while performing routine maintenance on one of our data centers. After collaborating with security engineers at several companies that were sending this modified traffic, we determined that the computers exhibiting this behavior were infected with a particular strain of malicious software, or “malware.” As a result of this discovery, today some people will see a prominent notification at the top of their Google web search results:
… Continue reading: Official Google Blog: Using data to protect people from malware
Check the article link below for detailed analysis of a nasty form of malware
Chalk up another success for what’s generally known as the "fake antivirus" scam. Federal investigators and security experts estimate that its various iterations have extracted at least $1 billion from victims in the past several years, and it has become the most visible manifestation of an overall rise in malicious software, or "malware," distributed online (see charts below). The damage goes beyond the theft of cash: even if you don’t pull out your wallet, sometimes merely clicking on the bogus come-ons can deliver other forms of malware that may steal your passwords or conscript your computer into a remotely controlled gang called a botnet. Because… Continue reading: The Perfect Scam – Technology Review
Check the article link below for a timely smartphone security reality check, but I don’t think a “curated app store” à la iPhone is going to suffice for malware defense, as the market shifts to HTML5 client apps
Criminals who infect personal computers worldwide with malicious software programs, hoping to steal credit card numbers and other personal data from computer users, are setting their sights on a new target: the millions of smartphones running Google Inc.’s Android software.
Hackers target Google’s Android phones – The Boston Globe
Continue reading: Hackers target Google’s Android phones – The Boston Globe
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