Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
For the last couple of weeks we have started the week off with ransomware, this week for a change we will start the week with Android malware. Cybercrime service bypasses Android security to install malware – BleepingComputer I have reported on the steps Google has been taking is tightening up …
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Google is rolling out on-device protection for Android devices to combat the ever present threat of malicious Android apps. Play Protect has been part of the Play store for a while but that did not protect against apps installed outside of the Store. This extension to Google Play Protect does. …
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The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is a trusted source of information on security updates and exploited vulnerabilities. My team use it as one of their go to resources. The latest updates include the other vendors that release updates around the same time as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. …
Many organisations use Android devices and many of those are owned by their staff and are being used as “BYOD” devices. You need to have a policy about the ones that hold your company’s information. Android is probably the most attacked OS after Microsoft (see article here) so you need …
I have just written about the information leak at NHS Lanarkshire because of the use of WhatsApp and I regularly talk about rogue Android apps that get into the Google Play Store – here I bring both of them together. A rogue app that steals WhatsApp user data: Hackers steal …
