Everytime you ask an Android smartphone user what he thinks about the utility of these devices, you will hear the same old story about the many functions it has and how the various apps can make life easier. But does an user really know what risks does this kind of comfort has?
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Android devices are currently the most attacked devices on the market, accordingly to 2015 figures collected by Avira Virus Lab. Last year, 98% of the infections found on devices were running this Operation System.
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Whenever we are going shopping for groceries or clothing, we often choose to pay with a card. If it’s a contactless one, the better. But the luxury of not having to punch in a PIN code could be really expensive if we are in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
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Mitre Corporation will introduce a pilot program for classifying CVEs in response to critics who contend the agency is failing to keep pace with a massive influx of CVE number requests.
RSA is over and it’s back to work for Dridex. Botnet operators have hardened the encryption on their settings files, a move that complicates detecting the next steps of this banking malware.
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A new email malware campaign includes a knock-off certificate that computer users can believe in – and an attached file with explicit instructions for how to get their computers infected.
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Not all is OK in the Android Market. If you occasionally download some of the most popular applications from Google Play Store, be aware that cyber-criminals have prepared a little surprise for you: a porn-clicker Trojan.
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Phishing attacks that use the German police and Locky ransomware as a theme make it clear: some cybercriminals aren’t above copying the success of competing cybercriminals to make money.
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There is a start for everything or so we’ve learned during the last weekend. Apple users were targeted in the first time ever ransomware attack against Mac computers.
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Have you ever wondered which are a hacker’s methods in hacking PoS’s, a kiosk or a desktop PC used for remote management?
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