Lauren Goode in Mobile on January 24 at 9:02 am PT
Lookout’s hackers-turned-start-up-guys have launched an Android app for real-time spying on mobile malware and spyware.
Michael Totty, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 26, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Malware — viruses, worms, Trojan horses and the like — has been around about as long as the first networked computers. In fact, 2011 is the 40th anniversary of the first known computer virus.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on August 2, 2011 at 8:07 pm PT
If you own an Android smartphone, you’re more than twice as likely to encounter malware today than you were six months ago.
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John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 10, 2011 at 2:41 pm PT
Disturbing news from Juniper Networks on this first day of Google I/O: Mobile security vulnerabilities have hit an all-time high–particularly in the Android ecosystem.
According to Juniper, Android malware attacks have increased 400 percent from the summer of 2010. An unsettling metric, and not just for Android fans. This surge in security threats is being driven largely by an increase in mobile application downloads, which seems to be the attack vector of choice. So really, anyone with a smartphone capable of running apps is a potential target.
Ben Rooney, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 11, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Consumers using Facebook and other social media sites, or using mobile devices, are among the key targets of malware according to the latest Internet Security Threat Report published by anti-virus company Symantec.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 24, 2011 at 9:00 am PT
That USB cable is just a connection to a computer or a phone, right? It couldn’t be carrying an attack. Or could it?
Researchers at George Mason University say they have found a way to mount an attack using just some malicious code and a USB cable.
Michael Hickins, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 11, 2011 at 1:56 pm PT
It’s tax season, which means cyber-thieves are trawling the Web and sending counterfeit email in the hopes of snaring your personal tax data. And they’ve created websites with reasonable-seeming addresses and legitimate-seeming emails in order to lure unsuspecting citizens into clicking on the wrong link or downloading a virus-laden PDF.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 5, 2011 at 11:07 pm PT
Late on Saturday, Google outlined several steps it is taking in the wake of this week’s “Droid Dream” attacks. The company said it plans to remove the infected applications directly from the devices of those who downloaded them, and will also push out a security update that will prevent any further information from being shared from the device to the attackers.
This marks only the second time that Google has exercised its power to remotely remove applications that had been installed by a customer. The first time was last June, when a proof-of-concept malicious application made its way onto the Android Market.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 3, 2011 at 2:05 pm PT
A new crop of malware-infected apps, some of which briefly made their way intoo Google’s official Android store, shows that the rise in smartphones hasn’t escaped the attention of those writing malicious code.
Although computers remain the more common vector for attacks, phones represent ripe targets with their fast Internet access, tons of personal information and direct connection to a billing mechanism.
