Mobile malware jumps 614% in a year

Computerworld Security: July 15, 2013
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Mobile malware jumps 614% in a year

Mobile malware attacks -- most of them aimed at Android devices -- are up
six-fold since last year, an increase due mainly to the use of free mobile apps
from sketchy vendors, according to studies by McAfee and Juniper Networks.
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1. Jonny Evans: Microsoft kills the enterprise cloud
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2. Preston Gralla: New Snowden revelation shows Skype may be privacy's biggest enemy
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3. Snowden says U.S. is using 'historically disproportionate aggression' to nab him
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4. Security Manager's Journal: Suddenly, our firewall audit can't wait
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5. Targeted attacks exploit now-patched Windows bug revealed by Google engineer
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8652955/823929835/619947/0/

6. Michael Horowitz: Unusual behavior from the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
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Jonny Evans: Microsoft kills the enterprise cloud


Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may be taking a page from the Apple playbook
in repositioning his corporation as a "devices company", but that's just
smoke and mirrors to disguise a firm that's lost its soul: its data surveillance
deal with the NSA undermines its precious position in the enterprise. Here's
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Preston Gralla: New Snowden revelation shows Skype may be privacy's biggest enemy


New information made available by Edward Snowden reveals that Skype's turning
over video and audio information to the NSA has skyrocketed in the past year, by
a factor of three. Given that Skype already helps the Chinese government snoop
on its citizens, this makes Skype one of the world's biggest privacy invaders.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8652955/823929835/619944/0/

Snowden says U.S. is using 'historically disproportionate aggression' to nab him

Fugitive classified document leaker Edward Snowden, holed up at Moscow's
Sheremetyevo International Airport since June 23, today accused the U.S.
government of using 'historically disproportionate aggression' to get him back
to the United States to face charges of violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
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Security Manager's Journal: Suddenly, our firewall audit can't wait

After a DDoS attack was discovered by chance, 'later this year' is too long to
wait.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8652955/823929835/619946/0/

Targeted attacks exploit now-patched Windows bug revealed by Google engineer

Microsoft this week said a pair of vulnerabilities, including one publicly
disclosed by a Google security engineer in May, had been exploited in the wild
before they were patched on Tuesday.
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Michael Horowitz: Unusual behavior from the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool


The July 2013 edition of Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT)
installs itself twice. For years there was one edition of MSRT every month. This
month, there seem to be two copies of the software but both have the same name.
Is this a bug? Waiting to hear from Microsoft.




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