As we reported recently, Apple's App Store was a victim of a large-scale attack, infecting a bunch of iPhone and iPad apps, mostly from China, with malware.
A new strain of malware has been detected living in some extremely popular apps on the iOS App Store. XcodeGhost - given the name because of the fact that it's distributed through a malicious build of Apple's Xcode integrated development environment - is the latest malware to befall Apple's iOS App Store, and has been found to exist in the extremely popular WeChat messaging application as well as Didi Kuaidi, the main rival to ride-sharing service Uber in the Chinese market.
Additional information pertaining to the iCloud account compromise that we reported about last week has now been made public, including a way of checking if you've been compromised.
Here's how to setup and use Facebook's new Security Checkup feature to make your account more secure than ever before.
Security researchers at Zimperium have some bad news for Android users out there who regularly send and receive multimedia messages. According to the researchers, a major security hole exists in the Android platform which could potentially allow malicious individuals to gain access to a device though simply sending a seemingly innocent text message to the targeted number. Android is currently the most popular mobile operating system on the planet, accounting for approximately 80% of smartphones in existence, so it isn't difficult to understand why this is a serious cause for concern.
A new scam affecting Apple's iOS devices has been discovered that attempts to prey on vulnerable users by displaying information contained in an official looking system level alert. The latest attempt at deceiving iPhone and iPad owners has so far reared its ugly head on devices located in the United Kingdom and United States and prompts users to call a supposedly toll free number in order to troubleshoot and fix the fabricated device issue.
Here’s why pre-loaded bloatware on OEM Android devices and Windows PCs needs to die right now for good.
If online privacy is a big deal for you, and it probably should be, then the Electronic Frontier Foundation's annual data privacy test is probably going to be of interest to you. Every twelve months the group takes the planet's most popular online services and puts them through a series of tests to decide just how privacy safe they really are. The results are turned into a star rating with five stars being the maximum score achievable.
It's been a bad day for both Samsung and Swift, the makers of the keyboard loved by many Android and iOS users, after it was discovered that a security flaw leaves Galaxy devices open to the running of malicious code when the Swift Keyboard is installed. The flaw, according to the security researcher who discovered it, affects over 600 million devices, and that includes the brand new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge.
Security is vitally important, and it will only become even more important as we start to store more and more of our lives online. Be it banking information or photos of our kids that are kept in the cloud, our data and information is best kept behind secure passwords, with those passwords kept in something like LastPass or 1Password, both of which are highly recommended to a lot of users.
