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DOJ Asks Court To Keep Google NSA Partnership Secret
LegalTimes DOJ Asks Court To Keep Google NSA Partnership Secret The Justice Department is defending the government’s refusal to discuss—or even acknowledge the existence of—any cooperative research and development agreement between Google and the National Security Agency. The Washington based advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center sued in federal district court here to obtain [...]
Google Adds Cyberattack Warning For Victims of State-Sponsored Attacks
News.com.au GOOGLE has added a feature to warn users whose accounts it believes are targets of “state-sponsored attacks”. Google, however, closed its search engine in China in 2010 after saying it no longer wanted to cooperate with Beijing’s internet censorship following hacking attacks traced to China. A message that says “Warning: We believe [...]
Android Smartphone Hackers Building Malware in Russia
Antone Gonsalves CSO The malware business growing around Google Android — now the leading smartphone operating system — is still in its infancy. Today, many of the apps built to steal money from Android users originate from Russia and China, so criminal gangs there have become cyber-trailblazers. Sophos and Symantec on Wednesday released their [...]
Android Malware Posing as ‘Angry Birds Space’
Matthew Hawkins Technolog @ MSNBC Android smartphone users and “Angry Birds” fans need to watch out for more than crafty pigs — there’s malware going around that targets Android users by posing as Rovio’s hit game “Angry Birds Space,” warnsSophosLabs. The infected version can be found in unofficial app stores and uses an Android Trojan [...]
Hacked Sites Spread Malware to Android Smartphones
Suzanne Choney Technolog @ MSNBC Android phone users should be on guard for new malware that can spread to the phone from mobile websites. Meanwhile, a fresh batch of malicious apps has surfaced in the Google Play store. ”This appears to be the first time that compromised websites have been used to distribute malware [...]
