PRAGUE, Czech Republic: Researchers at the AVAST antivirus labs in Prague have discovered a new batch of fake alternative marketplaces for downloading smartphone apps that trick users into sending premium rate SMS messages. Using a variant of the Android:FakeInst family, the new marketplaces hosted at www.t2file.net, www.uons.net, www.uote.net and www.sofile.net are aimed at defrauding users looking for smartphone screen savers and games.
Vigilance can report that on Wednesday 16 May, all 27 of Westminster's Safer Neighbourhoods teams (SNT) and Safer Business teams (SBT) took part in a day of community engagement activity. It was said each team arranged an event at a prominent location away from police premises on their respective wards to encourage more people to engage with their local policing teams.
Commenting on reports that a security developer has concluded that password-creation policies are the enemy of secure passwords, SecurEnvoy says that the fundamental issue is that conventional ID/password security is now coming to the end of the line as far as security is concerned.
Thousands of teenagers taking part in the annual two-day Ten Tors Challenge across Dartmoor in Devon were tracked every step of the way by a safety solution designed and supplied by Eseye.
London: More than 2,400 teenagers aged between 14 and 19 took part in Saturday’s event, trekking 35, 45 or 55 miles over what the Ten Tors director Brigadier Piers Hankinson called the "forbidding Dartmoor terrain". The teenagers set off on Saturday morning and camped on the moor overnight.
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