Android security flaws that allow malicious folk to fling apps onto phones without the user’s knowledge have been revealed. A study of HTC phones found that the integrated web browser can install software packages without the user being aware of it. That’s to allow HTC to automatically update the Flash Lite plug-in but also gives a way in for bad guys too.
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Facebook security has been given a welcome overhaul with a set of clever new features to battle the legions of keyloggers and malware makers throwing themselves against the social network’s defenses. We’ve not always been that complimentary about Facebook (see last week’s Facebook iPhone app brouhaha) but this time we have to say we’re impressed. Read on for details of the new Facebook security measures…
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An Internet Explorer 8 bug exposed on a security mailing list could open you up to malicious attacks on popular sites including Twitter and Hotmail. The flaw was publicised by Google man Chris Evans (no, not that one) and it seems Microsoft has left the Internet Explorer 8 loophole unplugged for some time…
The iPhone 4 jailbreak uses a pair of security flaws in iOS and Apple has finally slung out a statement to confirm that it knows about them and is getting set to plug the holes. That’s good news if you’re worried about the threat to your iPhone from malicious code popped into PDFs but it’ll also mean the brains behind the iPhone 4 jailbreak will have to think again…
Remember that huge load of Facebook data that ended up on BitTorrent? We half expected some unscrupulous torrenter to download it and try to flog it to an equally unscrupulous business. Well, it seems they didn’t have to – businesses are doing it for themselves.
Microsoft has got wind of the rumoured Google Windows ban and, unsurprisingly, it’s not impressed. Microsoft PR bods have hit Twitter and the company’s official blogs to attack the claims and trumpet Windows security. Are they right to go for Google or are they just protesting too much?
Google Gmail security has just got a little tighter with a new geolocation feature which will warn you if there’s a rash of login attempts from wildly different locations. While Google has long let you know when you’re logged into Gmail from two different computers, it’ll now warn you if you appear to login from Poland when you usually access Gmail from Crouch End.