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iPhone attack may have targeted Android and Windows too

September 3, 2019 0 Comments Android, Apple, bug bounty, Google, Government security, government spyware, iOS, iPhone, Mobile, nation state hacking, Operating Systems, security threats, vulnerability, Windows, zero day

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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FBI asks Google for help finding criminals

September 3, 2019 0 Comments Android, bank robbery, Google, Law & order, location data, Location history, location tracking, Mobile, Privacy, search warrant

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:39:18 +0000

FBI agents issued Google with a warrant in November 2018, seeking its help with a bank robbery the month before.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/jfyUzpPb6Ww” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google throws bug bounty bucks at mega-popular third-party apps

September 2, 2019 0 Comments Android, bug bounties, chrome, data loss, DDPRP, Developer Data Protection Reward Program, extensions, Google, Google Chrome, Google Play, Google Play Security Reward Program, hackerone, Mobile, oauth, security threats, third party apps, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:51:32 +0000

Google’s going to throw more bug bounty money at the problem of nasty apps in its Play Store, it announced on Thursday. In a post from the Android Security & Privacy team’s Adam Bacchus, Sebastian Porst, and Patrick Mutchler , the company said that it’s throwing the security net over not just its own apps, but […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bPMJRaBtj94″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sophisticated iPhone hacking went unnoticed for over two years

August 30, 2019 0 Comments Apple, Google, Google Project Zero, iOS, iPhone, security threats, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:54:08 +0000

Compromised iPhones were turned into surveillance tools capable of recording the owner’s entire digital life.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JJ6DBKwnpaM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Botnet targets set-top boxes using Android OS

August 30, 2019 0 Comments Android, Android Debug Bridge (ADB), Android OS, Botnet, Google, IoT, Mobile, Operating Systems, Organisations, security threats, set-top boxes, WootCloud

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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Apple apologizes for humans listening to Siri clips, changes policy

August 30, 2019 0 Comments Alexa, Apple, contractors, Cortana, Google, Microsoft, Privacy, privacy policy, Siri, voice assistants, voice recognition

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:35:34 +0000

Apple is turning off automatic review of Siri audio and locking it down so that only Apple employees get to listen to it.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YC7GTRUdtR8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google warns of system-controlling Chrome bug

August 30, 2019 0 Comments blink, browser bug, chrome, Chrome browser, Google, Google Chrome, Organisations, security threats, vulnerability, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:34:24 +0000

Google is patching a serious bug in the desktop version of its Chrome browser that could let an attacker take over a computer simply by luring them to a website.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/HwRH9qy2X3g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Emergency iOS patch fixes jailbreaking flaw for second time

August 28, 2019 0 Comments Apple, CVE-2019-8605, Google, Google Project Zero, iOS, iOS 12.4.1, iPad, iPhone, iPod, MacOS, Organisations, Patching, security threats, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:57:07 +0000

With iOS 13 nearing release, Apple users perhaps thought they were done with iOS 12 updates for good. If so, they were wrong.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/tkCnj_wl2M4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Android 10 coming soon, with important privacy upgrades

August 28, 2019 0 Comments Android, android q, Android updates, Google

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:49:38 +0000

It’s semi-official: Android 10 (née Q), the next version of the Android operating system, could start shipping 3 September.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/WPdybx7qWVs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Alert! 27 apps found on Google Play Store that prompt you to install Fake Google Play Store

August 27, 2019 0 Comments Android, Google, malware, Mobile Security

Credit to Author: Vaibhav Billade| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:29:14 +0000

Quick Heal Security Lab spotted 27 malicious apps of dropper category on official “Google Play Store”. These apps have been removed from Play Store after Quick Heal Security Lab reported it to Google last week. These apps continuously show installation prompt for fake “Google Play Store”. If any user falls…