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Ads, Promising Photos Of Dead Osama Bin Laden, Deliver Viruses CBS Philadelphia 05/04/2011 | Google Disables Android Malware; Takes Heat Over App SecuritySPENCER E. ANTE And AMIR EFRATI The Wall Street Journal 03/07/2011 |
A major software attack on mobile phones has put pressure on Google Inc. to do more to secure its online store for smartphone applications. The company behind the now ubiquitous Android operating system came under fire after computer-security experts last week uncovered more than 50 malicious applications that were uploaded to and distributed from Google's Android Market. | |
Malware 'Aimed at Iran Hit Five Sites' The New York Times 02/13/2011 | iPad users targeted by hackersClaudine Beaumont Telegraph 04/27/2010 |
Security experts have warned that Apple iPad users are being targeted by cyber criminals. Hackers are trying to dupe iPad owners in to downloading a fake iTunes update on their Windows computer, which, when installed, creates a backdoor for cyber criminals, allowing them to remotely access the machine or even use the computer to send spam messages. | |
Cyber attacks touching celebrities, governmentsKevin Voigt CNN 07/10/2009 | |
The death of Michael Jackson and Internet attacks in the United States and South Korea share a cyber-crime connection. Almost immediately following Jackson's death, antivirus software companies began seeing links related to the singer that were in fact snares for users to download malignant software, or "malware." Similar sites cropped up related to the death of Farrah Fawcett. | |
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