Year: 2016
Gooligan Malware roots 1 Million Android Phones in “largest Google Account Breech to Date”
(AppleInsider.com):Â A new strain of Android malware dubbed "Gooligan," thought to be "the largest Google account breach to date," is already in active circulation and three-fourths of the Android installed base is vulnerable. Once infected, devices give hackers access to the users' Gmail, Google Photos, Docs, Drive and other Google services accounts.
Discovered by Check Point Software Technologies, the "new and alarming malware campaign" was foundto have already compromised one million Google accounts, and is currently spreading to 13,000 new users each day.
The Gooligan malware is spread through phishing campaigns or malware installed via third party app stores. Once on the device, it sucks up local data, gains root access and downloads a module that enables it to steal the users's email account and Google's authentication tokens that provide it password-free access to the user's Google Photos, Google Play account, files in Google Docs and Google Drive and G Suite.
Stolen authentication tokens bypass various Google security mechanisms, including two-factor-authentication, by allowing the malware that gains control of them to appear to be the already-logged in, legitimate user.
To read the rest of the AppleInsider article, click here.
Amazon.com and CompuScoop team up for Holiday Season
We are pleased to announce that we now have our own on-line store on Amazon.com.
The store is filled with Technology-related products and services to help get your Holiday shopping done quickly.  For every purchase you make through this store, we earn a percentage of the sale to help us stay online.
To get there, just click on the STORE option on the Main Menu, or click here.
All products orders are fulfilled by Amazon.com and its vendors.
Netflix enables downloading of some content for offline viewing
Netflix has enabled the ability for its customers to download some of its movie and TV content for offline viewing.
The offerings include some movies and TV shows, but seems to be more available for its own content.
Current Content available:
- Stranger Things
- Orange is The New Black
- Narcos
- The Crown
- With more available in the coming days and weeks
The ability is currently for all Android and iOS customers after the customer downloads the latest update from the respective app store.
