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Chinese authorities in the western province of Xinjiang have issued instructions to residents to install spyware on their mobile devices.

A total of 43 Android phone makers, not three as originally reported, have been caught using ADUPS software to collect personally identifiable information without consent.

Despite ADUPS publicly announcing that its data snooping on 700 million Android smartphones was a “technical mistake”, the New York Times has said that American authorities say it is not clear whether the Chinese government was involved in the collection of this personal data. In the past China has been known to use a variety of methods to filter and track Internet usage and monitor online conversations.

It is a sad day when we are talking about spyware on smartphones sending personally identifiable information to China and the fact that some global companies think it is OK to take security and privacy away from consumers.

iOS 9.3.5, released overnight, fixes three flaws exploited by government agencies to spy on individuals.

Cloud security software as a service provider (SAAS), MailGuard, has partnered with fellow security company, Southern Cross Protection (SXP), to enhance SXP’s core offering from physical security to include cyber-protection for its customers.

Researchers have found that the Chinese Baidu browser and apps based on its SDK transmit user's search terms, GPS coordinates, the addresses of websites visited and device's MAC or IMEI address to Baidu's servers without using SSL/TLS encryption or gaining the users permission.

Security vendor ESET has warned Android users of a new Android Trojan spreading via Facebook pages.

Almost three months after being alerted to its presence, Apple has taken down from the App Store an allegedly fake Tor Browser containing adware and spyware.

HP announced this week that Ballarat Grammar has been the first school to take up its Sentinel security SDN application, and staff couldn't be happier.

More information is emerging about the Crisis malware first spotted earlier this month. It's a nasty piece of spyware.

The number of malicious Android apps on Google Play trebled from Q1 to pass the 25,000 mark in the the three months to 30 June, According to Trend Micro's latest Security Roundup Report.

McAfee's latest security report underscores the huge gap in IT security between perception and reality.

During the past 24 hours, as many as four German state governments have admitted to using spyware against their citizens.

Claiming the usual "it arrived in an anonymous brown paper bag," the Chaos Computer Club has announced the reverse engineering of what is claimed to be the German authorities' intercept malware, Quellen-TKÜ.

There seems to be no stopping the scam artists as they move from state to state attempting to extort money from naive computer users.

AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd, the distributor of the award-winning AVG Internet and mobile security software in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific, has announced the release of AVG Technologies' 'AVG Community Powered Threat Report - Q2 2011', providing insight, background and analysis on the trends and developments in the global threat landscape.

Malware authors use the Easter holiday to trick users into downloading malicious software

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Alex Eckelberry, the General Manager of GFI Security (the company behind Sunbelt Software) and the false positive result from VIPRE that led to claims that Samsung was shipping the StarLogger keylogger, has apologised.