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Scam alert: Malicious apps can ‘root’ Android devices without the owners’ permission

Posted on July 19, 2021

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One of the great things about modern smartphones and tablets is their ability to run apps that perform a wide variety of useful tasks.

If you can think of something for your device to do on your behalf, there is probably an app for it.

In reality, smartphones and tablets are in fact tiny computers, and the apps they run are actually computer programs, and there’s a downside to that…

Any device that can run a computer program is subject to being attacked by hackers. [Read more…]

Scam alert: New data leak exposes financial info of 600,000 consumers

Posted on April 9, 2021

Data breaches and exploits are nothing new to the online world.

In fact, it seems like they happen every day.

As reported by our friends at BleepingComputer, this latest massive data leak has a strange twist to it.

Apparently several groups that traffic in stolen credit card and banking information on the dark web are exposing the info in each others’ databases in some sort of weird retribution spree.

These actions have resulted in the credit card and banking info of 600,000 consumers being leaked onto the open web.

There are other factors involved in this latest leak as well, but the details aren’t really as important as taking steps to mitigate the damage if it turn out you were one of the affected consumers.

This is what I recommend that you do… [Read more…]

Scam alert: This could be the most dangerous malicious app ever

Posted on March 30, 2021

Regular readers of this blog know it’s risky to install Android apps from anywhere but the official Google Play Store.

As explained in this report from Zimperium’s Mobile Security Blog, a new malicious app called ‘System Update’ proves that point as well as any app ever could.

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