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More Than Mobile Sweepstakes — Win a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
This sweepstakes is now closed. Please ‘like’ our Facebook page for updates on more F-Secure news and promotions. Congratulations to our winner, Earl. For years, analysts predicted that all of our devices — PCs, laptops, DVD players, mobile phones — would merge into one all-purpose device that would handle everything we do digitally. Surprisingly we [...]
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What Drives Mobile Malware Innovation? You guessed it.
What motivates most of the world’s most advanced mobile malware authors? One word: money. Mobile Threats Motivated by Profit, 2004-2011 “The most credible threat is coming from hackers who want to profit monetarily with their attacks. And right now we’re seeing more profit-motivated mobile malware than ever before,” F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen said, in [...]
How to Take Responsibility for Your App Permissions
This week news that Facebook was experimenting with SMS functionality resulted in headlines about Facebook spying on its users. It’s true that Facebook’s Android App has the ability to read and write SMS messages, but it only can do so because you gave it permission to do so when you installed it. Many users see [...]
How to Protect All of Your Devices
Because of smart application development, most mobiles don’t face the plethora of threats that PC users do. But online criminals aim to change that. They’re working on malware for Macs, bad apps for Android and, of course, they can still hit you with a phishing scam on just about any web-connected device. Here are a [...]
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5 Ways to Keep Your Mobile Phone Safe
By Jason