Not all the news this week is going to be about a global company messing up their updates! Threat actors are always looking for the quickest and easiest way to reach the greatest number of victims – that is how their “business model” works! So exploiting a game with 250 …
Devices and Cyber Security – A Primer
I have written a number of articles over the past few weeks about how organisations need to be thinking about theirs’s and their employee’s devices and cyber security. Device Security (Pt. 1) Device Security (Pt. 2) Device Security Just One More Thing… When hardware reaches EOL – Device Security These …
Device Security (Pt. 3) Just One More Thing…
This article was previously published on CyberAwake but as it discusses some fundamental ideas about mobile device security and app stores, I thought it should be published here as well. Following on from my two latest articles looking about device security (linked below), I am coming back to the subject, …
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Android malware is big business
Android malware is a repeating news item here – and the way the Google Play Store operates is part of the problem but not the whole story. Another part of the reason is that unlike Apple and iOS, Google exerts far less control over the Android operating system and third …
Roaming Mantis targets both Android and Apple iOS. But there are more malicious apps out there than you probably realise…
The threat actor Roaming Mantis has been detected since February, targeting victims across Europe and the Far East. Their attacks are based around phishing text messages, Android users are directed to download a malicious app, whilst Apple users (as the Apple “walled garden” Apps store does an effective job of …
