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	FBI warns Loozfon, FinFisher mobile malware hitting Android phones The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has warned Android users that a number of malware attacks have been plaguing Android smartphone users. The IC3 said some of the latest known versions of mobile malware taking aim at Android users are Loozfon and FinFisher. MORE: The 10 most common mobile security problems and how you can fight them The group provided an outline of the nasty stuff: Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Improve IT Productivity with LogMein Rescue LogMeIn Rescue lets you do more. With Rescue, IT can quickly access, diagnose and solve IT problems anywhere, worldwide. The result: Improved productivity for IT staff, improved customer satisfaction and more time for the important stuff. Stop letting cludgy remote support tools get in your way of delivering great IT support to PCs and Smartphones Do More. 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Custom web-based email, calendars, and documents to easily share & work together in the cloud. Start with a free 30-day trial! Flame's vicious sibling miniFlame malware, a cyber-espionage 'surgical attack tool' The cyber-espionage malware Flame has a vicious little sibling called miniFlame, according to a Kaspersky Lab report released today. This small "high precision, surgical attack tool" can operate as a standalone, without the Flame main modules, or as component controlled by Flame or the espionage program Gauss. Read More Getting forensics data off smartphones, tablets can be tough, experts say Trying to get computer forensics data out of mobile smartphones and tablets in order to conduct investigations is hard -- often much harder than on PCs, laptops or Macs -- and experts say that forensics tools need to improve. Read More FTC warns 19 online sites about falsely promoting International Driving Permits The Federal Trade Commission today said it fired off 19 warning letters to online sites it said were illegally selling documents to obtain International Driving Permits. The FTC says that consumer groups and state and local law enforcers have charged that in some cases, the documents are being promoted as legitimate identification to undocumented immigrants in the United States. Read More Symantec shows off security research and development projects At Symantec Research Labs, Symantec's internal research and development arm, there are a number of projects underway which are likely to emerge as products and services within the next 18 months. Sanjay Sawhney, the senior director of research, product development, recently showed off three projects the company is developing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Websense, Inc. Defending Against Today's Targeted Phishing Attacks Although email remains highly vulnerable to foul play, security continues to rely heavily on principles and technologies that are more than a decade old. Organizations need to take a new look at email security, particularly as newer, more targeted phishing attacks proliferate. Read Now! Microsoft Windows 8 brings malware improvements, says antivirus researcher With Microsoft Windows 8 soon to arrive, aspects of the new operating system related to anti-malware protection and other security features are getting a lot of attention. Read More Social media surveillance helps the government read your mind Earlier this year, an interesting yet depressing article on End of the American Dream had pointed to "25 signs that America is rapidly becoming more like Nazi Germany." Then in a radio interview last week, Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin said that thanks to all the surveillance capabilities in the USA, the Read More CIA: Flying Skyhook wasn't just for James Bond, it actually rescued agents This had to be one hell of a ride. The CIA today said it added a pretty cool item to its museum archives - the instruction card for officers being plucked off the ground by a contraption that would allow a person to be snatched off the ground by a flying aircraft. Read More What does your degree matter? Millions of dollars over time Over the course of a working career, the type of degree you have can be worth millions of more dollars to our bottom line. The US Census Bureau this week came out a wit couple first-time studies that show people with higher level technical or engineering degrees can on average make over $3 million more during their lifetimes than those who graduated with majors in the arts, humanities and education.... Read More WHITE PAPER: BMC Software 2012 Software License Management Benchmark Survey The BMC Software and IAITAM survey results show that organizations clearly see the need for software license management. But it also revealed some interesting insights as well. Learn More! Poisoned links plague Microsoft's Bing search Microsoft's Bing is the king of poisoned search engine links. Or, perhaps it isn't. Read More Paywall puts Anonymous-WikiLeaks relationship on the rocks Anonymous' anger goes beyond a donation page, however. The group believes WikiLeaks has become too focused on its founder, Assange Read More US Supreme Court refuses to hear NSA, AT&T wiretapping case The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to overturn legal immunity for telecom carriers that allegedly participated with a U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program during the last decade. Read More Facebook patches security hole that allowed mass harvesting of phone numbers Facebook has restricted the rate at which users can perform phone number searches on its mobile website in order to block a recently disclosed method of harvesting phone numbers. Read More
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