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08
Sep
2011

We have just encountered a number of Android riskware applications that target subscribers in the China region. The suspect applications cover a variety of topics, including horoscopes, farm and pet games/info and the Chinese calendar, to name a few. Below is a screenshot of the permissions requested by one of these applications: However, some of […]

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We have discovered a problem that may be affecting security on a small number of computers running Sophos Anti-Virus or Sophos Endpoint Security and Control. Although we have only had a small number of reports of this issue, we are advising all of our customers to perform certain checks as unfortunately the nature of this […]

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There has been some recent online discussion about games from the Chrome Web Store requesting excessive permissions. These games are extensions for Google Chrome. To access various aspects of Chrome, certain permissions are required; for example, to allow access to the Bookmark manager to update bookmarks. The “Super Mario 2” app is offered by the […]

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