7 smart steps to get your Android phone in tip-top shape for 2022

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0800

Happy New Year! I don’t know about you, but I find the start of a fresh voyage around this shiny ol’ sun of ours to be a fine time for tidying up, optimizing, and getting good and organized for the months ahead. And while I’d love to pretend I’m the type of person who has one of those disgustingly pristine, clutter-free desks you see on the internet, let me be brutally honest: The physical space around me tends to resemble a half-abandoned hog parlor.

But my Android phone? My Android phone is as orderly as can be, gosh darn it. And if you ask me, that makes far more of a difference than the state of the physical space around me.

Our mobile devices are where we do so much of our actual work and contemplation these days, after all — and yet it’s all too easy to overlook the importance of maintaining an optimal arrangement for both productivity and security within ’em. So now, as we gaze ahead at the promise-filled 2022 calendar, join me in taking 10 minutes to get your own trusty Android phone fine-tuned and fully ready for the coming year.

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Microsoft patches wormable Windows 10 ‘SMBGhost’ flaw

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:58:56 +0000

What’s the difference between a scheduled security update and one that’s out-of-band? In this case, it’s two days.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/OqgpMudTrew” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Nvidia patches severe flaws affecting GeForce, Quadro NVS and Tesla

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 11:09:05 +0000

In all, the update covers five Windows and Linux desktop CVE vulnerabilities, including one rated as critical.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YitOMgSO498″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple’s iOS pasteboard leaks location data to spy apps

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:28:24 +0000

A developer has discovered that malicious apps could exploit the pasteboard to work out a user’s location.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/C0t83agCkD4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Android 11 to clamp down on background location access

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:51:53 +0000

Is Android finally about to get on top of the issue of apps that quietly suck up location data?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/pgha-yLJwm8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Nearly half of hospital Windows systems still vulnerable to RDP bugs

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:58:46 +0000

Almost half of connected hospital devices are still exposed to the wormable BlueKeep Windows flaw nearly a year after it was announced, according to a report released this week.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/wGhEwriWtkU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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IE zero day and heap of RDP flaws fixed in February Patch Tuesday

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:52:59 +0000

Microsoft has finally patched the Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day flaw the company said in January was being used in “limited targeted attacks”.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JI_KRna6j1I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Critical Android flaws patched in February bulletin

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:46:14 +0000

Google has patched Android bugs that include a couple of critical flaws that could let hackers run their own code on the mobile operating system.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/k2wIz5MF-3I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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NIST tests methods of recovering data from smashed smartphones

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:54:30 +0000

Criminals have found to their cost that reducing a device to a pile of rubble means nothing if the internal chips are still in working order.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/DhhD2UVxfZU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Microsoft fixes critical bugs in CryptoAPI, RD Gateway and .NET

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:10:33 +0000

Here are the most serious bugs from Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday – Including CryptoAPI and RCE flaws in Windows Remote Desktop Gateway.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/_JcrLmlUQmc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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