Staggering Increase in Android Malware Variants, Trojan Apps

The number of malicious programs that target Google’s Android mobile platform is growing at an alarming rate, according to data from anti-malware company F-Secure. In the first quarter of 2012, F-Secure identified 3063 new malicious Android application packages APKs and 37 new families of...

PayPal Revises Privacy Policy, User Agreement Policy

PayPal announced that it is changing both its privacy and user agreement policies, adding tweaks to its customer identification program and the way it collects and stores its customers’ personal information. The changes will take effect on April 1. Under the new policy, Paypal may collect...

Android浏览器证书伪造漏洞

Open Handset Alliance Android是一款超过30家科技与移动电话公司所组成的团体开发的免费的移动电话平台 由于浏览器显示错误证书信息，可通过iframe可使用其他合法站点的证书，使用户信任当前网页内容 0 Android 3.x 厂商解决方案 目前没有详细解决方案提供： http://www.android.com/...

Sybase M-Business Anywhere两个权限提升漏洞

Sybase 的M-Business Anywhere 可以提供一个移动内容和应用程序平台，将基于Web的移动内容和应用程序传送至移动设备。 Sybase M-Business Anywhere在实现上存在两个未明细节的漏洞，可被恶意用户利用获取提升的权限。 Sybase Sybase M-Business Anywhere 7.x Sybase Sybase M-Business Anywhere 6.x 厂商补丁： Sybase ------ 目前厂商已经发布了升级补丁以修复这个安全问题，请到厂商的主页下载： http://www.sybase.com/...

Uronimo - Mobile platform website Hacked by Team Inj3ct0r

Uronimo - Mobile platform website Hacked by Team Inj3ct0r Uronimo - Mobile platform Hacked by Team Inj3ct0r today. They leak the database of site on Pastebin , including Username, Hash Password, emails and Phone Numbers of 1000 users...

Android Malware Increasing, AutoRun Attacks Still Prevalent

The recent trend of attackers focusing their attention on mobile platforms such as Android, Symbian and iOs is continuing to accelerate, researchers say, and the threats to smartphones are becoming more and more sophisticated and dangerous. Android is becoming the focus of much of the attention...

When Angry Birds Attack: Android Edition

It’s been about six months since I reported a vulnerability in the Android mobile platform that allowed the unprompted installation of arbitrary applications with arbitrary permissions on a victim’s device. While the vulnerability has long been fixed on Android handsets around the world, I’ve yet...

The Underground Economy: SMS Fraud

The underground malware economy has expanded and diversified in recent years and the latest frontier is the mobile platform. In this video, Kaspersky Lab’s Denis Maslennikov talks about the ways that attackers use premium-rate SMS messages and banking fraud to bilk users...

Kaspersky Lab forecast for the IT threat landscape 2011 – 2020 !

Kaspersky Lab has released its forecast for the IT threat landscape for this decade 2011 – 2020. Kaspersky bases this forecast on an analysis of the main changes and issues in the sphere of IT security over the past decade, as well as emerging trends in the development of personal computers, mobi...

Microsoft Targets Android with Patent Infringement Allegations

The mobile phone wars became more interesting late on Tuesday when Microsoft publicly claimed for the first time that Google's Android operating system infringes on its intellectual property. According to sources close to the company, Microsoft believes that Android infringes on its patented...