Threatpost News Wrap, September 1, 2017
The Onliner spambot, Google’s forthcoming Not Secure warnings for Chrome, the WireX botnet, Sarahah privacy and more are discussed.
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Hardening the kernel in Android Oreo – OS News
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Hardening the kernel in Android Oreo
OS News The hardening of Android's userspace has increasingly made the underlying Linux kernel a more attractive target to attackers. As a result, more than a third of Android security bugs were found in the kernel last year. In Android 8.0 (Oreo), significant … |
Inside Android Oreo’s Quest to Protect Your Phone – WIRED
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Inside Android Oreo's Quest to Protect Your Phone
WIRED From halting ransomware to blocking malicious apps and easing Android's longstanding fragmentation woes, Oreo tackles some big problems. For the security developers who work behind the scenes, though, it's just one more step on a journey that never … |
Mobile users are in denial … – IT-Online
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Mobile users are in denial …
IT-Online A myriad of polls over the last year have confirmed what we would expect; consumers don't want their mobile devices to fall victim to security onslaughts. However, these polls have also shown that an alarmingly small percentage of people are willing to … |