Tag: mobile
5 Mandatory Steps For Protecting Data From Eavesdroppers
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Every day we hear news reports in the mainstream media about social network hacking, malware, malicious account takeovers and protecting data. It doesn’t matter if you are the average Joe Blow or a huge corporation like Burger King, everyone is being targeted these days. Cyber criminals are searching for everything from [...]
DataLocker DL3 Portable Encrypted hard drive Review
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributor The DataLocker DL3 portable encrypted hard drive is a ready-to-use solution that provides data security and peace of mind in the event of equipment loss or theft. DataLocker, Inc. is a provider of hardware encrypted storage devices. From their headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas they have provided their secure hard drives [...]
6 Military Grade Solutions For Keeping Your Data Safe
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributor Keeping your data safe. It might seem inconvenient, but it should be your primary concern. Whether you work for a three-letter government agency or on top of a roof pounding nails, we all have sensitive information that we want to keep away from prying eyes. These days our most private data is stored on computer hard drives, from passwords [...]
How Cyber Criminals Are Exploiting Our Swipe-n-Go Society
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Curtis Abernathy, a small business owner in Arizona, never expected to be caught up as the victim of an international ring of cyber criminals stealing identities online. But that’s exactly what happened last week when he received a call from Bank of America’s security office. The bank’s security team [...]
Experts Say Facebook Hackers May Be Infecting Your Computer
John Brandon Fox News Sadie Ouse, a high school senior, never saw it coming. Recently, Facebook hackers commandeered her Facebook account. Using a common malware tactic, the hacker sent a message to all of her friends with a link to the site homeincomenow3.com, operated by “Zhang Lei” in Beijing, China. A Norton security scan [...]
Al-Qaeda Linked to New York Phone Hacking Scams
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Hackers with ties to Al-Qaeda terrorist cells in Somalia and the Philippines are targeting New York small businesses using international phone hacking scams. The scams are costing the companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in phone charges each month. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said that the hacker group has a [...]
Top 6 Cyber Security Predictions for 2013
Chiranjeev Bordoloi VentureBeat If there is any weakness in security, you can guarantee the criminals will try to exploit it. And if a cyber criminal discovers a weakness in one community, it won’t be long before that isolated crime turns into a trend. The commercialization of malware is rapidly becoming a well-organized and highly [...]
FBI Warns Public About Smartphone Malware Attacks
Michelle Lowry KJRH Channel 2 News TULSA – Smartphone malware attacks. The Internet Crime Complaint Center says there is malware attacking operating systems for mobile devices. Just two examples of this malware according to the FBI are Loozfon and FinFisher. Information-stealing malware could come in as a work-from-home opportunity that promises big bucks for [...]
Facebook Mobile Camera App Allows Hackers To Hijack Accounts
Ingrid Lunden Techcrunch PSA to all Facebook Camera users on iOS: If you haven’t updated your app in the past few days, update it now. The older version of the app, pre-1.1.2 and released before December 21, has a security loophole. When used over WiFi networks, malicious hackers can tap the network and hijack accounts, picking [...]
Android Malware Steals Bank Data From Your Phone
Lucian Constantin PC World Several malicious Android apps designed to steal mobile transaction authentication numbers (mTANs) sent by banks to their customers over SMS (Short Message Service) were found on Google Play by researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab. The Android malware apps were created by a gang that uses a variant of the [...]
What To Do When Your Phone Gets Hacked
Elise Ackerman Forbes What To Do When Your Phone Gets Hacked … My friend Mike’s Android phone had been acting strangely for awhile. In the middle of the night, the phone would come alive. It would meander down various menu paths, send texts that were gibberish and start playing poker. Was it bug in [...]
Hacked Android Apps Trick You into Revealing Personal Data
BBC Millions of people are using hacked Android apps that can be tricked into revealing personal data, research indicates. Scientists tested 13,500 Android apps and found almost 8% failed to protect bank account and social media logins. These apps failed to implement standard scrambling systems, allowing “man-in-the-middle” attacks to reveal data that passes back and [...]
Twitter Hacking Victims Find Their Accounts On Black Market
Gerry Smith Huffington Post Eric Weaver tried logging in to his Twitter account this summer, but he was locked out. A hacker had broken into his account and changed the password. But it didn’t end there. With a little digging, Weaver found that his Twitter handle — @weave — was being sold in an [...]
Social Media Insurance Protects Your Facebook Account From Hackers
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Social media insurance? Can you believe it? I can. According to statistics, 7 Facebook accounts are hacked every second. How many of you have either had your social media account hacked or know someone who has? Most of us have seen those notorious posts on a friend’s Facebook profile [...]
Twitter Hires iOS, Android Hacker Charlie Miller
Meilssa TheDroidGuy.com Twitter recently added a new recruit to its security team. Charlie Miller, a popular figure among hackers, broke the news via his Twitter account, saying, “Monday I start on the security team at Twitter. Looking forward to working with a great team there!” Unfortunately, Miller says in an interview with both CNET [...]
How to Survive a Zombie Hack Attack
Stephanie McGrath The Chronicle Herald How to Survive a Zombie Hack Attack I was sitting at my parents’ cottage checking my iPhone when digital disaster struck. First, I couldn’t sign into my email. Next, my husband’s phone made that annoying “You’ve got mail” Apple sound. “Did you just send me an email?” he asked. [...]
Top 15 Tips to Create Strong Passwords, FREE Secure Password Generator
Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer You can use our FREE Secure Password Generator to create a new password now. Top 15 Tips to Create Strong Passwords Today’s digital world brings new conveniences and entertainment in the form of online shopping, banking and social networking sites. With these conveniences there are also new threats [...]
Security Alert: New Android Fake Gmail Malware “DDSpy” Steals Your Privacy
NQ Mobile NQ Mobile’s Security Research Center recently uncovered new Android malware—DDSpy—which disguises itself as Gmail and runs silently in the background, stealing your personal data. If you’re infected with this malicious application, you won’t see an icon for it. Instead, it will hide in your app list and wait for instructions from [...]
NSA Utah Data Center Largest Spy Compound Ever – Part 2
James Bamford Wired.com (Threat Level) Continued from: NSA Utah Data Center Largest Spy Compound Ever – Part 1 For the first time, a former NSA official has gone on the record to describe the program, codenamed Stellar Wind, in detail. William Binney was a senior NSA crypto-mathematician largely responsible for automating the agency’s worldwide eavesdropping [...]
NSA Utah Data Center Largest Spy Compound Ever – Part 1
James Bamford Wired.com (Threat Level) The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It’s the heart of Mormon country, [...]
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 [...]
Anti – Android Network Toolkit and 7″ Tablet make a $99 Pentesting Platform
D. Dieterle Cyber Arms Every once in a while you run into a product that just makes you sit back and say – “Wow!” I just picked up a 7″ Polaroid tablet for $99 and was stunned at how good it works. The screen quality, how smooth it ran and how responsive it was. [...]
Phone Hacking Scandal Comes to the U.S.
The Daily Beast In an exclusive interview, a London lawyer reveals his plans to take on Murdoch on behalf of clients who believe their phones were hacked in America. Fleet Street lawyer Mark Lewis is coming to America this week—and he’s bringing the phone hacking scandal with him. Lewis has been Rupert Murdoch’s prime [...]
