Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:48:58 +0000
Microsoft has rushed to patch two flaws affecting IE versions 9 to 11, one of which the company says is being exploited in real attacks.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JKx5VMBH6xs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 08:23:00 -0700
Well, gang, it’s here. In case you’ve been hibernating over the past week (or maybe just, ahem, on an unfortunately timed week off), Google brought Android 10 into this wacky ol’ world of ours this past Tuesday.
There’s really only so much to say about the Android 10 basics at this point — because, quite frankly, it’s the same software we’ve seen evolving in plain view over the past several months.
Yes, Android 10 has new gestures for getting around your phone. Yes, it has a new system-wide switch for making the entire operating system dark. And yes, it has a nifty new Focus Mode for limiting distractions on an app-by-app basis.
Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:51:21 +0000
When is a security update not a security update? When it’s patching flaws in a version of an OS nobody beyond developers is yet running.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/xUkOcZUm9To” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:47:23 +0000
A sophisticated and sustained watering hole attack affecting iPhones may have targeted Windows and Android too.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/3wCw5XE352c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:07:32 +0000
Production systems aren’t supposed to have the ADB turned on, but some set-top boxes do.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YVYbkKJr18k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:27:37 +0000
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday brought some bad news yesterday: more wormable RDP vulnerabilities, this time affecting Windows 10 users.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Bu9rFB1i64g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:16:09 +0000
Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone has found a new and concerning route for malware to find its way on to Android devices – malicious apps that have been factory pre-installed.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/vAwqo-IqEMU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:44:22 +0000
It formalizes the reality: “pre-jailbroken” iPhones were already on the black market.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SFMBPoyjIsk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:44:07 +0000
Google’s Project Zero has unveiled details of a bug in Apple’s iMessage that lets attackers read data from an iPhone without any user interaction.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/lRgoEr1lXx4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:00:00 -0700
I haven’t looked at today’s tech news too closely just yet, but I have a sneaking suspicion some evil-sounding virtual gremlin or other is probably on the brink of invading my smartphone, stealing my secrets, and setting me up for a lifetime of dread and despair.
He might even be covertly eating all the salty snacks from my kitchen this very second. ALL THE SALTY SNACKS, DAMN IT!
I don’t have to scan the headlines too closely to know there’s a decent chance of all of this happening — because all of this happens practically every other week here in the Android world. A solid few to several times a month, it seems, some hilariously named and made-to-seem-scary new piece of malware (ViperRat! Desert Scorpion! Ooga-Booga-Meanie-Monster!) is making its way onto our phones and into our lives. Or so we’re told, rather convincingly and repeatedly. (All right, so I may have made Ooga-Booga-Meanie-Monster up just now, but c’mon: It’s probably only a matter of time til we see something using that name.)