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MacStealer Extracts Docs, Cookies, Login Info from MacOS Users

SecureWorld News

Uptycs is sponsoring and participating in a panel discussion at the SecureWorld Financial Services virtual conference on May 17th. A good example of this TTP is seen in the CloudMensis/BadRAT spyware discovered independently by both ESET and Volexity."

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Help! I have a Virus!

Sean Daniel

These are terrible, and programs like Windows Defender , built right into Windows, if updated, will protect you against any of these. All the little programs YOU install on your computer, some of them are bloatware, and some of them come with bloatware. You don’t need any other Anti-virus program, as Windows Defender does it all.

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How much control should Apple have over your iPhone?

Vox

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, recently said that allowing Apple users to get apps through third-party app stores or by downloading them directly from the open internet (a practice known as sideloading) would open them up to a “Pandora’s box” of malware, though iPhones aren’t exactly immune to spyware.

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Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future

The Verge

She said she usually discloses her clients when speaking at conferences. Facebook is accusing the spyware maker of creating accounts to send malware to mobile phones of 1,400 people to snoop on them. What’s more, she added, those papers didn’t focus on either Apple or Amazon. Actually, the whole idea of a deal is pretty ridiculous.”