Let’s end this week on a good news Android story. There is no doubt that malware infected and malicious Android apps do get distributed through the Google Play store – see last Friday’s final post among the many on this site. Google has taken various steps to try and deal …
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 …
Another bad Android app
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about bad apps and how easy it is for the threat actors to create them and deploy them into the Google Play Store – You must have an Android cyber security policy. Here is another example. Chameleon is a mobile trojan for Android …
You must have an Android cyber security policy
People complain about the way Apple controls its App store, “Android and Google Apps are far less restrictive”, but whatever the arguments it does mean their level of app curation improves the cyber security of Apple devices. The fact that Apple controls both the hardware and operating systems of their …
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Watch where you download your Tor browser from…
…or any other software. Governments around the world, including for instance Russia, ban Tor web sites from the internet in their countries as it is a very effective way for users to conceal their IP address from authorities. However this had led to a rise in other sites offering Tor …
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