Tag: intel
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VB2016 preview: Wild Android Collusions
Most research into and protection against malicious apps focuses on single apps. This makes it interesting for malware authors to use app ‘collusion’: the ability of two (or more) apps to perform an attack in collaboration. Such attacks have previously been demonstrated as proof-of-concepts but had not yet been found in the wild until earlier…
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VB2016 preview: Wild Android Collusions
Most research into and protection against malicious apps focuses on single apps. This makes it interesting for malware authors to use app ‘collusion’: the ability of two (or more) apps to perform an attack in collaboration. Such attacks have previously been demonstrated as proof-of-concepts but had not yet been found in the wild until earlier…
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Computer chip giant buys AV giant
Intel becomes new owner of McAfee for the princely sum of $7.8bn Intel , the world’s biggest manufacturer of computer chips, is poised to acquire security giant McAfee – one of the ‘big four’ anti-malware vendors – in a deal worth $7.8 billion, the company’s biggest acquisition in its history. Under the terms of the…