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These Aren’t the Droid Updates You’re Looking For

24

Oct

2011

Our Threat Solutions team discovered an interesting threat using a novel “infection vector” for Android today. Back in July, they analyzed Spyware:Android/SndApps, which, after an update, is able access various bits of personal information. Before the update, it only requests the “Internet” permission. It seems probable to us that users are less likely to carefully […]

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Security 101: Vulnerabilities, Part 2

20

Oct

2011

In my last post we discussed the most dangerous kind of vulnerabilities that we classify at McAfee Labs: remote code execution and denial of service. Today, we’ll talk about vulnerabilities that are not so dangerous, those we classify as Medium or Low Risk. These threats still require our attention because they can create a chain […]

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Apple releases OS X 10.7.2 and iOS 5 with enormous security patch

13

Oct

2011

Apple have released updated versions of OS X Lion (10.7.2), Snow Leopard (Security Update 2011-006), iOS (5), Numbers for iOS (1.5) and Pages for iOS (1.5) to resolve numerous security issues. Beginning with OS X 10.7.2/Security Update 2011-006 for OS X 10.6 there are 75 known vulnerabilities that are fixed with these updates. Most could […]

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