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Warning: Facebook 'Color Change' App is Malicious
2014-08-09 02:37:42| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Here's what you need to know to avoid falling victim to this phishing trap.
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Energy providers hacked through malicious software updates
2014-07-01 14:23:46| InfoWorld: Top News
Eastern European-based attackers gained access to the networks of energy providers by tampering with software updates for industrial control systems, gaining a foothold that could be used for sabotage, Symantec said Monday. The Dragonfly group, which appears to operate from Eastern Europe, compromised three ICS vendors, adding a piece of remote access malware to legitimate software updates, the security vendor wrote in a blog post Monday.
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energy
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Google amps up fight against malicious apps with enhanced Android security
2014-04-11 13:27:11| InfoWorld: Top News
Google is boosting Android security safeguards to better detect potentially harmful apps throughout their life cycle. The security enhancement, announced Thursday, is designed to continually check Android devices to detect vulnerabilities in apps that could be introduced at any time. Previously, malicious apps downloaded outside of Google Play could only be flagged at the time of installation.
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New iOS flaw allows malicious apps to record touch screen presses
2014-02-25 14:17:13| InfoWorld: Top News
Security researchers identified a vulnerability in iOS that allows apps to record all touch screen and button presses while running in the background on non-jailbroken devices. Since the touch screen is the primary input interface on an iOS device, this attack is the equivalent of keylogging. An attacker could use the captured touch data -- X and Y axes coordinates -- to determine what characters victims inputted using the on-screen keyboard.
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Malicious Ads Infect Thousands of European Yahoo Users
2014-01-06 18:17:55| TechNewsWorld
Certain advertisements on Yahoo's European website may have helped infect thousands of computers with malware. A Dutch computer security firm, Fox-IT, outed Yahoo last Friday, penning a blog post claiming that attackers had used ads.yahoo.com to insert malicious ads. Fox-IT was apparently on to something, because on Sunday, Yahoo admitted to hosting ads that didn't "meet out editorial guidelines."
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