Android susceptible to sophisticated clickjacking malware

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	Android susceptible to sophisticated clickjacking malware Clickjacking rootkits could pose the next big threat for the Android platform, according to a research team out of North Carolina State University. Led by computer science professor Xuxian Jiang, the team has developed a prototype clickjacking rootkit -- which attacks the Android framework, rather than the kernel -- that's more sophisticated than the other Android-oriented malware already out there. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds Consolidate All of Your Event Logs in One Place for FREE! Tired of having to log on to each Windows system to see event logs? Looking for a centralized view? Organize all of your event logs from all of your Windows systems in one location with Event Log Consolidator. View, consolidate, and dismiss event logs and correlate issues among multiple Windows systems quickly and easily from one central location! Download the free Event Log Consolidator tool today! In this Issue Behind the $40 Windows 8 upgrade Bye bye, corporate phone Google+ is not a social network, says Google exec Twitter releases first report on gov't requests for user information RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker, Inc Create, deploy and manage custom business apps for iPad The FileMaker Platform is a complete software suite to create, deploy, and manage custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. Design and build stunning iOS apps. Integrate mobile apps into existing enterprise systems. Deploy and instantly update your apps. Secure your apps with industry-standard authentication. Learn more, Watch overview video, Read the white paper > Behind the $40 Windows 8 upgrade My friends have chided me for cheering on Bill Snyder's provocative suggestion: Blow it up, Ballmer: Give away the Surface for free. Blow it up, Ballmer: Give away the Surface for free. Although I figure Snyder got the wrong Steve -- Sinofsky's most likely the one in the driver's seat -- and the proposal is obviously not realistic, I admire the sentiment. Microsoft's one huge advantage in coming out with its own Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT hardware is pricing. And the lower the Steves can go, the more Metro's going to sizzle in the marketplace. Read More Bye bye, corporate phone Some people don't do windows. Mark Egan, CIO at VMware, no longer does the corporate phone. Choosing to ride rather than duck the wave of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) adoption currently flooding corporate America, Egan last fall instituted a mandatory, 90-day window for employees at the virtualization software company to trade in their corporate-issued phones for their own personal devices and mobile phone plans -- leaving some workers unhappy at first. Read More Google+ is not a social network, says Google exec A year after Google+ was launched, it seems Google is saying it's not really a social network after all. Now this might be confusing to the 150 million people who actively use Google+ every month. They catch up with colleagues and friends on Google+ Circles. They chat with family members in Google+ Hangouts. They post photos. They watch videos. So aren't those the things you do on a social network? Google has other thoughts on this. Read More Twitter releases first report on gov't requests for user information Twitter released a report on Monday about the user information requests it has received from governments this year and how it responded to them. The data shows that the U.S. government asked for information on far more users than any other country. Between Jan. 1 and June 30, Twitter received 679 requests for information from American authorities pertaining to 948 users. Read More
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