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That's because pretty much every mobile phone in the world can receive text messages, regardless of its age, feature set or ability to access the internet. The obvious solution in cases like this, where you want to check if there really is a problem with your mobile phone account balance - or your credit card statement, or, your latest home delivery, or your streaming video subscription, or whatever it might be.
Adobe on Tuesday informed customers that it has patched vulnerabilities in its Reader Mobile and Connect products, but none of them appears too serious. The company says the patches are already being rolled out to hosted services and they should become available for on-premises deployments later this week.
A new banking trojan has been discovered targeting Android users, with the capabilities to spy on 153 mobile apps from various banks, cryptocurrencies and exchanges. Kaspersky telemetry shows that all victims of the Ghimob mobile banking trojan are currently located in Brazil at the moment.
The Wroba mobile banking trojan has made a major pivot, targeting people in the U.S. for the first time. Where Android users are served up the full Wroba download, according to researchers, the executable doesn't work on iPhone.
The virtual edition of the HITBCyberWeek 2020 security conference starts on November 15. Simultaneously, those in search for specific cyber security knowledge and effective exercises can opt for one of the virtual trainings that have been scheduled to take place.
Motorola will push ThinkShield onto the business end of its smartphone portfolio, as an extension of the security and management programme on Lenovo's laptop and desktop line. ThinkShield for mobile devices consists of four components, with the first being a "Clean OS". In practice, this means Motorola will avoid loading up devices with unnecessary non-stock software, from additional bloatware to UI overlays.
While 2020 has brought many challenges, perhaps the most critical from a social perspective is how we have intertwined mobile devices into our daily lives. We've seen a similar tactic used in an ongoing mobile phishing campaign that sends a message purporting to be a missed package delivery with a link to a fake claim page that is a mobile phishing attack.
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The meteoric rise of the game Among Us appears to be outpacing its developer's ability to keep up with malicious actors. Among Us takes place in a space setting, where some platers are "Crewmates," and others are "Imposters" that live among us.
If you have loads of apps installed, don't worry: you can check some of the most important permissions for all of them in one go. With iOS 14 small arrows now appear alongside an app in the list or on the home screen when the app is in use to let you know if a location service is being or has been accessed by that app.