SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

New research from Lookout reveals the most common mobile threats aimed at federal, state, and local government agencies and their employees—all of which have increased since 2021. Almost 50% of all phishing attacks in 2021 sought to steal credentials of government personnel, up from 30% in 2020.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cybercriminals often use malware to gain access to a computer or mobile device to deploy viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, spyware, and rootkits. A 2020 LokiBot variant was disguised as a launcher for the Fortnite multiplayer video game. Enforce MFA. Maintain offline (i.e., physically disconnected) backups of data.

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Vox

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We love our mobile apps. And if you’re reading it on an iPhone, then you got that app through the App Store, the Apple-owned and -operated gateway for apps on its phones. Apple is facing growing scrutiny for the tight control it has over so much of the mobile-first, app-centric world it created. Apple makes the phones.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

And then Google made Chrome, and Microsoft just kept making Internet Explorer, and Microsoft made a series of really bad mobile phones, and Apple made a good one, and within a few years Microsoft was an enterprise software company with a video game console division and it was hard to remember what the whole fuss had been about in the first place.

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