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• How to detect hidden administrator apps on Android

  18.06.2013

  Following the discovery of a new Android Trojan that uses several errors and vulnerabilities in the Android OS to make analysis harder for researchers and to remain hidden from users and practically inexpugnable from the device, Trend Micro has created a tool that helps users find and remove this and other similar malicious software.

• CyanogenMod founder aims to thwart data-grabbing apps

  18.06.2013

  There's some very good news for users of CyanogenMod, one of the most popular modified Android firmware on the market: its founder and main developer Steve Kondik (aka Cyanogen) has announced that he is currently working on a new privacy feature that would allow users to prevent third party apps from accessing their personal data.

• Bill aims to regulate email privacy in the cloud

  18.06.2013

  Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed and thusly put into effect HB 2268, a bill that legislates that law enforcement agents must get a search warrant to access "electronic customer data held in electronic storage or the contents of and records and other information related to a wire communication or electronic communication held in electronic storage." This new law is binding only for state and local law enforcement - federal agents are bound by the much more permissive Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) that dates back to 1986, and says that a warrant is required only if the email has not yet been opened by the recipient.

• Facebook, Microsoft and Apple disclose little on U.S. government data requests

  17.06.2013

  The disclosure of details about the controversial PRISM program set up by the NSA has indubitably damaged the reputation of the companies involved in it, and some of them are naturally trying to rebuild it and prevent both businesses and individual users from jumping ship and searching alternatives.

• British GCHQ spied on G20 delegates to gain advantage in talks

  17.06.2013

  The British GCHQ has monitored computers and intercepted phone calls made by the foreign participants of two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 and provided crucial information in near-real time to the British government and its officials involved in the talks, The Guardian has reported on Monday.

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