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Three million Android users may have lost money and had their devices infected by spyware, after the discovery that the official Google Play store has been distributing apps infected by a new family of malware. French security researcher Maxime Ingrao described last week on Twitter how he had discovered the new malware, named “Autolycos”, and how it signs up users to premium services. The Autolycos malware, which shares similarities to the Joker spyware, spies on…

A Romanian man accused of distributing a computer virus that hit over 1 million computers has been extradited to the US. The suspect, 37-year-old Mihai Paunescu, allegedly ran a hosting service that helped distribute the Gozi virus, which caused tens of millions of dollars of financial losses worldwide.  First discovered in 2007, the Gozi virus was able to go undetected as it stole bank account information from computers – 40,000 of which were in the US,…

While networks are getting more complex, the infrastructure that IT supports tends to grow at a relatively steady rate. However, in the past few years the footprint IT is responsible for has grown exponentially. Because of this, IT is often the first to be blamed when apps are slow or network performance drops. The role of IT has transitioned to one of defense where guilty-until-proven-innocent is the norm. Unfortunately, this has brought rise of a…

Increasing cloud adoption, whether because of moving internal apps to IaaS and PaaS or migrating to SaaS solutions, fundamentally alters the job of IT and network operations teams. While NetOps teams have historically focused on rolling out traditional on-premises infrastructures, they now find themselves supporting applications that are third-party operated and require a different set of network skills. With this environment as a backdrop, here are three reasons your network team should be more experience-centric….