This week, SecurityWatch looks at two new threats for Android users. The first is a nasty malvertising scam that brings scareware to Android, tricking victims into giving away their personal information in order to be "safe" from malware. The se...
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reader comments148 with 93 posters participatingShare this storyShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditEnlarge / PC Power Speed is a classic example of the kind of program that Microsoft will start removing. The "registry errors" that t...
In the wake of the Carrier IQ blowup of the last few weeks, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was filed asking for “manuals, documents or other written guidance used to access or analyze data gathered by programs developed or deploye...
Today’s irony cup overfloweth: A Californian man has filed a lawsuit against Symantec, claiming that its software uses scare tactics to scam consumers out of money — the exact same tactics that fake antivirus malware uses to scam unwittin...
Fake virus scans often look just like the real thingONE day in March 2008, Kent Woerner got a disturbing phone call from a teacher at an elementary school in Beloit, Kansas. An 11-year-old student had triggered a security scan on a computer she was u...
