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Search Monetization As a New Threat to the Mobile Platform

Jan

2012

Last week we came across a report about a Plankton variant embedded in various apps emerging in the Android Market. One of the samples we inspected is a puzzle game called Sexy Ladies-2.apk, which is detected as ANDROIDOS_PLANKTON.P along with many other apps related to it.Other external reports tell of the millions of app downloads with […]

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Security 101: Vulnerabilities, Part 1

Oct

2011

Welcome back to Security 101. The topic of today’s blog is vulnerabilities. In our frequent McAfee Labs Threat Advisories you see the term vulnerability in almost every item. “A vulnerability has been found…” or “A vulnerability in some versions of…” are commonplace. What is a vulnerability? A vulnerability is a program bug that under certain […]

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Flaw in OS X Lion allows unauthorized password changes

Sep

2011

A researcher at the Defense in Depth blog has discovered a flaw in Apple’s recently released operating system, OS X 10.7 (Lion), which allows passwords to be changed without knowledge of the logged in user’s password. The flaw appears related to Apple’s move towards a local directory service which has permissions set in an insecure […]

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