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Simple tips to keep your devices secure when you travel

CSO security reporters Fahmida Rashid and Steve Ragan share some easy ways to keep your data and devices secure while traveling, even at the Black Hat conference, where active scanning is the norm. (And check out the built-in Faraday cage in Fahmida’s jacket).
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Google begins deployment of Play Protect to Android devices – Neowin


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Google begins deployment of Play Protect to Android devices
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Back at its I/O developer conference in May, Google's Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson made the somewhat bold claim that "Android was built with security in mind from day one" citing the mobile operating system's application sandboxing as evidence. However …

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CopyCat mauls 14m devices on Android OS – Oman Tribune

CopyCat mauls 14m devices on Android OS
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A CopyCat malware affected over 14 million Android devices last year, damaging 8 million of them and earning the hackers approximately $ 1.5 million in fake ad revenues in two months, an information technology security provider Check Point has revealed.

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CopyCat Malware Infected 14M Android Devices, Rooted 8M, in 2016

Over the course of two months last year the Copycat malware infected 14 million Android devices and rooted more than half of them, roughly eight million devices.
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