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google android adware malware apps. Google has stepped in to remove several Android applications from the official Play Store following the disclosure that the apps in question were found to serve intrusive ads. The findings were reported by the Czech cybersecurity firm Avast on Monday, which said the 21 malicious apps (list here) were downloaded nearly eight million times from Google's app marketplace. The apps masqueraded as harmless gaming apps and came packed with HiddenAds malware, a notorious Trojan known for its capabilities to serve intrusive ads outside of the app. The group behind the operation relies on social media channels to lure users into downloading the apps. Earlier this June, Avast discovered a similar HiddenAds campaign involving 47 gaming apps with over 15 million downloads that were leveraged to display device-wide intrusive ads. "Developers of adware are increasingly using social media channels, like regular marketers would," Avast's Jak

RIP Col-Shaban Bantariza Deputy government spokesperson Col. Shaban Bantariza is dead. Col. Bantariza died today morning at Mulago National Referral Hospital where he had been admitted since Sunday. Media Centre Executive Director, Ofwono Opondo who is also the boss of Col. Bantariza announced his death. “I hereby with deep sorrow regret to announce the death of my Deputy Shaban Bantariza that occurred early this morning at Mulago Hospital where he had been in admission since Sunday with hypertension” Mr Ofwono wrote. Bantariza was in 2013 appointed Media Centre Deputy Executive Director by President Yoweri Museveni before he was retired.  Within the same  year, he was arrested and slapped with charges of embezzlement of funds while he served as the head of National Leadership Institute Kyankwanzi. He was subsequently acquitted of the charges when those that accused him failed to produce evidence. Col. Bantariza was army Spokesperson between 2000 and 2002 and fr

What could have been as a shock to many is that, all along many people didn't know Cheptegei Joshua is a Police Officer. The Police Advisory Committee has recommended IP Cheptegei Joshua who broke four (4) World Records in long distance running competitions, for promotion to his next rank of ASP. The IGP who is the Chairperson of the PAC made the announcement to honor the athlete on Wednesday, 21.10.2020 during the meeting.  He in addition, tasked the Director of Logistics and Engineering to allocate a Double Cabin Pick-up and a Coaster Mini-bus to the Police Athletics team to support their training in Kapchorwa in fulfillment of his earlier pledge. We would like to add that the police elite athlete has so far had a phenomenal season, where he broke 4 (four) World records.  He is now the 5000m World record holder, a double Common Wealth Gold Medalist, and is also the reigning World Cross Country and World 10,000m Champion. In addition, there are plans to rename a facility a

In the spirit of Pan-Africanism, after joining H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to officiate at the ground-breaking ceremony of the 132KV power line connecting WestNile to the National grid & commissioning Electro-Maxx thermal power plant in Arua we paid a visit to our neighbors in DRC. We need to embrace one of the core principles of NRM (Pan-Africanism) if Uganda & the region are to attain social economic transformation for dev’t as it is vital to our economic, social & political progress but also unifies & uplifts African people. 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇨🇩🇨🇩 #M7IsMyPresident

Ministers and MPs; Anite Evelyn, Moses Ali, Aridru Gabriel, Atiku Benard and other MPs from WestNile Region have this afternoon joined President Museveni in launching the ground breaking ceremony for the Grid Expansion and reinforcement project that will eventually connect WestNile Region to the National Grid.

New Chrome Zero-day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now. Attention readers, if you are using Google Chrome browser on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computers, you need to update your web browsing software immediately to the latest version Google released earlier today. Google released Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 to patch several security high-severity issues, including a zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild by attackers to hijack targeted computers. Tracked as CVE-2020-15999, the actively exploited vulnerability is a type of memory-corruption flaw called heap buffer overflow in Freetype, a popular open source software development library for rendering fonts that comes packaged with Chrome. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by security researcher Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero on October 19 and is subject to a seven-day public disclosure deadline due to the flaw being under active exploitation. Glazunov also immediately reporte

Blogger Ashburg Kato has protested against certain members of the National Resistance Movement over what he calls “lack of transparency’ following the disappearance of cows that had been promised to him by President Museveni. Kato claims that during a meeting with President Museveni at his farm in Kisozi, the president promised him five cows which he duly delivered. “When I met the president, he said he was very happy with my ideas, he asked that I start farming so as a contribution he pledged five cows. I was elated but I was not prepared to have the cows, I had not where to put them immediately,” Kato said. “The truth is that the president never tells lies even if he promises you the whole of Kampala today, you will wake up and demand it and have it. So in this case the president delivered the cows,” Kato said. He, however, claims that the cows that were delivered were given to someone at Okello House in Nakasero who disappeared with them. “I have been waiting for the cows, from nowh