Once upon a time, the back-to-school weeks used to involve parents buying their children new shirts, pants, and shoes for the year ahead. But times have changed. Today, it’s more likely anxious moms and dads are investing significantly more of their hard earned dollars into laptops, smartphones, and tablets for their little ones. But while…
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In the crush of news about the Hacking Team attacks and the subsequent flurry of vulnerabilities, mainly affecting Adobe, there was one piece of critical information for Android users that many have overlooked. Among the tricks and tools that we’ve discovered the Hacking Team has at their disposal is a particularly nasty piece of Android…
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New Versions of Trend Micro Mobile Security Now Available Unless you’ve been hibernating for a few years, you probably know that the Internet Age has quickly evolved into the Mobile Internet Age (MIA). Now-a-days, it seems everyone is maintaining an MIA lifestyle using at least one smartphone and probably a tablet, too, to get online. …
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Security researchers are reporting new, serious vulnerabilities that, they claim, affect 95 percent of the Android phones out there. If that’s not alarming enough, according to the researchers, these vulnerabilities allow attackers to take complete control of your phone with zero interaction—you just need to receive a specially-made multimedia message (MMS). They’re calling this cluster…
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There’s another vulnerability affecting the Android platform that this week once again raises the question: am I vulnerable? Researchers from NowSecure announced at Black Hat in London this week a vulnerability affecting the SwiftKey keyboard on Android. The biggest concern is for Samsung Galaxy phones which install the SwiftKey keyboard by default and allow it…
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…And What to Do Before You Get Rid of It It’s time to spring clean! If you’re like me, you hate to toss a piece of hardware into the garbage. Happily, over the past couple of decades the reuse-recycle-repurpose trend has taken hold and expanded in our society. There are many ways to avoid just…
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