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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Wednesday Apple Rumors: Malware Targets Android Devices
Here are your Apple rumors and AAPL news items for today: Contagious: Viruses specifically designed to target smartphones and tablets are burgeoning, but are almost entirely aimed at devices running Google‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android OS, AppleInsider notes. The analysis comes from F-Secure Labs,…
F-Secure: Android Malware Ecosystem Resembling Windows
SAN JOSE, Calif. – May 14, 2013: The first quarter of 2013 was marked by firsts for Android malware that add complexity to the Android threat landscape. According to F-Secure Labs’ latest Mobile Threat Report, Q1 saw the first Android…
As Android threats grow, Google stays the course
If you were looking for a big enterprise-related announcement during Google’s I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco last week, you were disappointed. Google announced no major upgrades to its Android mobile operating system. But from a security standpoint, that may…
Android threats growing in number and complexity, report says
IDG News Service – The Android threat landscape is growing in both size and complexity with cybercriminals adopting new distribution methods and building Android-focused malware services, according to a report from Finnish security vendor F-Secure. The number of mobile threats…
Fake ‘Android Defender’ Promises Security, Delivers Malware
CREDIT: Eric Milos/Shutterstock.com/Google/Creative Commons. Image composite by TechNewsDaily. The newest threat to Android is an app that promises users security for their mobile devices. But don’t let the phony “Android Defender” name fool you. This ironically named anti-virus software…
Growing mobile malware threat swirls (mostly) around Android
IDG News Service – Mobile devices are getting hit by a boom in malware similar to the one that hit PCs starting with the rise of the Web, a security software executive said Tuesday. “Mobile platforms, for a lot of…
Android malware in pictures – a blow-by-blow account of mobile scareware
Thanks to Nagy Ferenc László of SophosLabs for thebehind-the-scenes work that he put into this article. Fake anti-virus, also suggestively known as scareware, tricks you into paying money by pretending to find threats such as viruses and Trojans on your…
Swype update brings improved word prediction and Dragon Dictation UI
After a seemingly never ending beta period, Nuance Communications released the Swype keyboard app into the Google Play Store in late-April. While the Play Store version of the app should have been familiar to anyone that had been using the…
Posted in Android Updates Tagged with: Android Update, HTC update, LG update, Mobile update, Motorola update, Samsung update
NFL.com Fantasy Football app update finally makes it useful
The NBA playoffs are both a good thing, and a bad thing for people like myself. They keep me somewhat entertained while patiently waiting for the NFL season to return, but also remind me just how much better Football really…
Posted in Android Updates Tagged with: Android Update, HTC update, LG update, Mobile update, Motorola update, Samsung update
