Security Strategy, Plan, Budget

A recent study found that only 17 percent of IT professionals were confident in their ability to defeat cyberattacks.

Researchers found a series of malicious apps containing Android/Clicker.G on the Google Play store. The campaign targets mobile devices in Russia, but they affect apps that are available globally.

Android devices are vulnerable to attack owing to a newly discovered bug.

In a move to strengthen the security of its Blogger platform, Google launched HTTPS versions of all blogs hosted on the company's blogspot.com domain.

Google released patches for 40 security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Vulnerabilities include remote code execution, elevated privilege, and remote denial of service (DoS) flaws.

Fitbit has acknowledged on its website that an April 2016 update to its Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale, an Internet-connected bathroom scale, patched a critical security vulnerability that was discovered through Google's Project Zero initiative.

Mobile attacks can workaround two-factor authentication on Android phones and inject malware onto iOS phones.

Attack vectors multiply as more devices connect to enterprise environments, says IANS's Chris Poulin.