Apple and Android news

• Hacker News: Android P to Block Apps From Monitoring Device Network Activity. Plus commentary from The Register: Android P to improve users’ network privacy
• Malwarebytes: Mobile Menace Monday: re-emergence of a fake Android AV
• TrendLabs: Maikspy Spyware Poses as Adult Game, Targets Windows and Android Users
• Forbes: Watch Out Apple: North Korean Hackers Are Now Developing iPhone Spy Tools
• Sophos: Apple boots out apps that abuse location data collection
• iOS 11.4 to come with 7-day USB shutout – Apple documentation says “To improve security, for a locked iOS device to communicate with USB accessories you must connect an accessory via lightning connector to the device while unlocked – or enter your device passcode while connected – at least once a week.” Based on the Elcomsoft article
  iOS 11.3 Adds Expiry Date to Lockdown (Pairing) Records
• Help Net Security: iOS users are 18x more likely to be phished than to download malware – not surprisingly, given the rarity of iOS malware and the upsurge in mobile phishing attacks, but some of the other statistics are interesting. Based on Wandera’s Mobile Phishing Report 2018.
• ZDnet: iOS 11.4 could make it tougher for cops to unlock your iPhone
• The Register: Crypto chat app Signal’s disappearing messages found hiding on macOS – “Mac Notification Center sometimes clones supposedly transient notes”

David Harley