Happy New Year. I am going to start the cyber news for 2024 with a story that broke between Christmas and the New Year – Apple iPhone hardware vulnerabilities. I am a great supporter of the Apple iPhone and the associated “walled garden” App store as a good cyber security …
Let’s start this week with Android Malware
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 Play Protect gets an on device boost
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 security advisories
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. …
Android Updates
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 …
