Security News > 2017 > March

Google Eliminates Android Adfraud Botnet Chamois (Threatpost)
2017-03-14 19:40

Google removed a family of malicious apps, Chamois, from its Play marketplace recently that were found manipulating ad traffic.

Patch Tuesday Returns; Microsoft Quiet on Postponement (Threatpost)
2017-03-14 19:26

Microsoft released 18 security bulletins, eight rated critical. The company also patched publicly disclosed vulnerabilities that surfaced since last month’s postponement of Patch Tuesday.

Sensitive US Air Force data found exposed online (Help Net Security)
2017-03-14 19:23

A misconfigured, unsecured backup drive containing a huge amount of sensitive (but not classified) data on US Air Force officers has been sitting online, accessible to anyone, for who knows how...