If you love books, then you’d agree that e-readers have made it convenient to access them. Apart from being home to a large library, e-readers are portable and have a long battery life. However, like any device that connects to the Internet, there is concern about whether e-readers can get viruses. In this article, we’ll examine e-readers to understand their potential … [Read more...] about Can E-Readers Get Viruses?
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Your eBook Might have a Virus called candy.js
If you have an e-reader issued by Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Kobo your reading habits are being tracked. These companies want to monitor what books you are buying and how long it takes you to get through them. When ebooks are sold on other platforms, publishers and authors are normally kept out of the loop, until now. A new tracking script is currently being implemented that … [Read more...] about Your eBook Might have a Virus called candy.js
Avast Finds Adware In Android Apps with Millions of Downloads
Everybody knows that you have to be careful for malware and adware when installing apps, especially from lesser known sources. Unfortunately, the security firm Avast is now telling us that we are just as vulnerable to these security threats when downloading apps from the Google Play store --even those with millions of downloads. The latest discovery involved a series of … [Read more...] about Avast Finds Adware In Android Apps with Millions of Downloads
New Style of Android Attack: User Interface Inference
At the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium last week in San Diego, California, a new-style of Android security threat was discussed: user interface inference. This next-generation of attack technique communicates the state of any targeted application --the most intimidating example may be if malware can detect that a user has clicked a login button. Knowing that this behaviour … [Read more...] about New Style of Android Attack: User Interface Inference
Android Anti-virus Apps Are Useless
Useless might be a strong word, but when it comes to being protected from security threats it would seem that the issue is necessarily black and white: you're protected or you aren't. So imagine the surprise (heard, read) around the world when Google's chief security engineer for Android, Adrian Ludwig, announced that anti-virus apps may not be terribly valuable on that … [Read more...] about Android Anti-virus Apps Are Useless