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The Security of Your Android Device May Depend on Where You Live

Issued by: Security Week

Over the last few years, security researchers have been able to crack various Android phones during Pwn2Own hacking competitions. Now one firm has collected its research and finds a potentially significant global problem: Android security may be dependent on the country of use. One problem is the open and global nature of the Android operating…

Malware & Threats, Network Security

Emotet can spread to poorly secured Wi-Fi networks and computers on them

Issued by: Help Net Security

Here’s yet another reason to secure Wi-Fi networks and Windows user accounts with a strong enough password: researchers have spotted and analyzed a variant of the Emotet Trojan that is able to spread to nearby wireless networks and compromise computers on them. Emotet: An old threat Emotet is one of the most versatile malware threats…

Network Security

5G IoT security: Opportunity comes with risks

Issued by: Help Net Security

Slowly but surely, 5G digital cellular networks are being set up around the world. It will take years for widespread coverage and use to be achieved, so what better time than now for finding a way to ease into it while keeping security in mind? Opportunity comes with risks “Without a doubt 5G opens up…

Network Security

5G Myth Busting: Unpacking the Cybersecurity Risks and Realities

Issued by: Security Week

When 5G was formally announced in 2018, it came with promises of changing the face of wireless connectivity – those promises are finally being realized. Around the world, wireless carriers are switching on functionality and, in both the U.S. and the UK, all major vendors have enabled it. But for now, 5G is only available…

Network Security

The global impact of 5G technologies

Issued by: Help Net Security

A white paper produced by Rysavy Research and 5G Americas technical experts explores the intensifying role of wireless communications, the evolution of its technology, emerging services and use cases, and a timeline of future developments through 2030. “The transition to 5G has been happening simultaneously with continued advances in 4G LTE,” stated Peter Rysavy, President…

Network Security

Countering industrial cyberthreats with secure, standards-based, licensed wireless networks

Issued by: Help Net Security

Over the past few years, cyber threats aimed at a number of critical infrastructure targets have drawn our attention to the security of mission critical networks. These threats have included power grids in Ukraine and Ireland, U.S. energy companies and nuclear power plants, and most recently, at an electric utility on the West Coast where…

Network Security

How 5G could impact cybersecurity strategy

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

With the recent news that South Korea has rolled out the world’s first 5G network, it’s clear that we’re on the precipice of the wireless technology’s widespread launch. Offering speeds anywhere from 20 to 100 times faster than 4G long-term evolution (LTE), the next generation of wireless networks will also support higher capacities of wireless…

Malware & Threats

Vaporworms: New breed of self-propagating fileless malware to emerge in 2019

Issued by: Help Net Security

WatchGuard Technologies’ information security predictions for 2019 include the emergence of vaporworms, a new breed of fileless malware with wormlike properties to self-propagate through vulnerable systems, along with a takedown of the internet itself and ransomware targeting utilities and industrial control systems. “Cyber criminals are continuing to reshape the threat landscape as they update their…

Mobile Security

Mobile security threats: Lack of visibility is putting businesses at risk

Issued by: Help Net Security

A significant lack of visibility into devices and networks is putting businesses at risk for data leakage and phishing attacks, according to a study conducted by Enterprise Mobility Exchange. The study showed that nearly 50 percent of mobile workers spend the majority of their worktime connected to non-corporate public Wi-Fi and carrier networks. Of that…

Mobile Security

Researchers Create Attacks That Compromise LTE Data Communication

Issued by: Security Week

Newly devised attacks on the Long Term Evolution (LTE) high-speed wireless standard break the confidentiality and privacy of communication, team of researchers claim. In a newly published paper (PDF), researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum and New York University Abu Dhabi present a set of attacks against LTE’s data link layer (layer two) protocols, which could be…