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Google booted four spyware-laced apps from Google Play that targeted oversees travelers seeking embassy information and news for specific European countries. The apps gathered user information from Android phones including: contacts, email, GPS data, phone type, device ID and identified if the phone had been rooted, according to Lookout’s Security Research and Response Team which […]

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Microsoft is launching new Microsoft Authenticator applications next month in popular mobile app stores to provide users with multi-factor authentication (MFA) functionality on the go. MFA is the new trend among high-tech companies, and Microsoft is the latest to have made its plans on the technology official, after Yahoo! last year debuted a new sign-in […]

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The next release of Android’s operating system, code-named Nougat, will prevent malware from locking users’ screens, a Symantec researcher wrote on a corporate blog. Ransomware, a type of application that extorts victims by locking up data or devices, often works by resetting cellphone passwords. Users are then forced to pay for the new password to […]

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