New software nasty encrypts Android PHONE files and demands a ransom Miscreants have brewed the first file-encrypting strain of ransomware that infects Android smartphones. The malware, dubbed Android/Simplocker by ESET, scans the SD card in a handset for certain types of file, encrypts them, and demands a ransom to decrypt the data. The ransom message is written in Russian, with payment …
>> newer versions of Android don't allow access to files, even on the SD Card to other applications.<<
"Sweet! So why would I want files that nothing can read?"
He did say even in your quote that it restricts file access to other applications, I think you sir may have the reading problem.
"Sweet! Why did I quote something i did not read?"
There FIFY ;)
There was no security breach of the iPhone OS. There were users who had used the same passwords on their Apple accounts as on other accounts and a miscreant (or miscreants) having got hold of a password list (as can be purchased from many sites on the Internet), had managed to log into some iPhone user accounts and use the "lock a lost or stolen iPhone" facility to lock the user's out of their own phones. The facility lets you post a message to the screen when the phone is locked. The message said something to the effect "your phone has been taken over, pay x to y if you want to access your files again"
Actually the user could just log in to their iCloud account on any browser, and unlock it (though they would probably want to change their password first) If they had been so foolish as to use the same password on their email accounts, the hacker might also have taken those over, in which case they really would be stuffed. I didn't hear any reports of that happening, but lets face it, if they were using the same password with multiple accounts the chances were quite high some might have been so affected.
Restoring from an actual backup would limit the inconvenience to about three or four minutes. It's a shame Google, in their drive to get us all relying on the cloud, haven't actually integrated a proper backup tool within Android.
I'd love my phone to recognize it's at home and it's the middle of the night and to then start making a backup of itself to my NAS.
I've already got that setup on my phone using a combination of Titanium Backup, FolderSync and Tasker
Tasker kicks off a FolderSync task to sync my phone and SD card contents to my NAS (via samba) but only if (a) phone is connected to power (any state except battery), (b) wifi is connected to my home SSID AND (c) the time is 3:30am. I could configure it to check GPS to see if I'm actually at my house but I thought that was overkill.
(Titanium Backup is for my apps and other data which syncs to another location on the NAS but you won't need that I suspect)
I know 2 people that had their phone stolen, 3 that have lost theirs, and I've personally broken 2 phones because I just love dropping expensive equipment. Pro tip: a motorcycle fork leg w/o any fluid in it gets destroyed when you drop it, too. So does a DMM. And a crystal vase. And a CRT (tho that was on purpose)
Also, if it's really dry and you build up a damn good static charge, your Moto G touchscreen will stop working when you zap it. Motorola did RMA it, even though I fully confessed to the deed.
I've lost 2 phones, had one stolen, and, the first iPhone (iPhone 3) I had got dropped in the toilet, had a drink of beer, and several glasses of water, had the screen smashed, and the damn thing still worked! I bought that particular phone 2nd hand, and it eventually got pawned (hehehehe, that makes me giggle, dunno why, just does).
I did have an iPhone 4 up until just recently, when I lost it, somewhere... but it was only being used for audio, pix, e-mail, www, and solitaire (hmm, that's quite a number of uses, think I'll miss it) - for some reason it wasn't very reliable as a phone, despite it's name.
You're not going to believe it. No crap. Just found that missing iPhone 4. It has been missing for five days, and has a charge of 54% on the battery. Mind you, it is in "Plane" mode.
I know it almost sounds like I'm spamming that fruity co. here in these forums, truly, I'm not. My real phone is not one of theirs. It's labeled "garmin asus," which I've never heard of with those two words/names together before this phone. "Garmin," I've heard of. "Asus," I've heard of, but not "garmin asus." Anyway, to those still reading, it runs on Android 4 point something-or-other, and it works perfectly as a phone - can't get the damn camera to work the way I want it to work; there doesn't appear to be any native "notes" type application, blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, I'm glad to have that iPhone back that doesn't work as a phone but works almost perfectly for a lot of other "mobile" uses.
edit: missed a word & punctuation
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