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Malware rains on Google’s Android Oreo parade [source: nakedsecurity]

Google has had an exciting summer, for good and bad reasons. The good news: Google just officially launched the eighth version of its operating system, Android Oreo, with enhancements for battery life and security. Last month, it also began rolling out a new feature called Google Play Protect, designed to scan apps that could cause harm to your Android device and data. The bad news: at least five different...

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Google Play Store Security Scans Tricked [source: bleepingcomputer]

Google has yet to remove two apps infected with dangerous malware that are currently still available for download via the official Google Play Store. The apps are named “Earn Real Money Gift Cards” — an app for winning gift cards by installing other apps on your phone — and “Bubble Shooter Wild Life” — a mobile game. Both apps were developed and recently uploaded on...

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What are the risks of allowing people to use their smartphone at the bank? [source : welivesecurity]

From time to time, our readers raise questions or issues related to topics that concern, or simply interest them. One such issue was brought up recently by a Twitter user, who asked us: “Do you have any posts discussing the risk to banks when people use their cell phone inside them, ignoring the security guards?” We think this is a very interesting question and one...

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USB connections less secure than has been thought [homelandsecuritynewswire]

USB connections, the most common interface used globally to connect external devices to computers, are vulnerable to information “leakage,” making them even less secure than has been thought. Researchers tested more than 50 different computers and external USB hubs and found that over 90 percent of them leaked information to an external USB device.


Hacking smartphones with malicious replacement parts [helpnetsecurity]

Smartphone users can now add a new entry to the list of things they need to worry about: their phones being compromised via replacement parts. A group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has demonstrated that hardware replacements – e.g. touchscreens, NFC readers, wireless charging controllers, and so on – can be equipped with a chip that is capable of manipulating the device’s...

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