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Market research firm eMarketer predicts that more than 4.5 billion people in the world will use a mobile phone in 2014.That means more customers for smartphone companies; it also means more potential victims for attackers. That reality has made for a boom in the market for malware and cybercrime services related to mobile devices. In […]

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A new strain of Android malware uses the Tor privacy network to avoid detection while it snoops on your text messages, according to a report by Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky Lab. Dubbed Backdoor.AndroidOS.Torec.a, the Trojan connects to whats called a command-and-control server, through which, as the name implies, the Trojans creators can send commands to […]

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The National Security Agency (NSA) has the ability of collecting SMS text messages and related data in bulk from around the world, a new The Guardian report shows, based on documentation obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. According to an internal NSA presentation from April 2011, the company was able to gather almost 200 million […]

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