Google has no way to push updates to devices running Android software, making the devices vulnerable to malware.

A security researcher has discovered a way to take over roughly 70 percent of Android devices via a Web page or app. It’s not known if anyone’s actually using the exploit to attack people’s phones, but the researcher’s findings are nonetheless a reminder that Google faces a growing headache because it lacks any way to effectively distribute security updates to the hundreds of millions of devices running its software worldwide. Many of those devices have outdated versions of Android.

Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.

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Leidos National Security Operations CTO discusses cybersecurity at Shady Grove

The UMBC Graduate Cybersecurity Program at the Universities at Shady Grove is pleased to host James D. (Don) Bowers, CTO and Chief Scientist of Leidos (formerly SAIC) National Security Operations for a discussion on current cybersecurity operations and the challenges of operating across the complex cyber spectrum.

The event will take place from 6:00-8:00PM on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 in Building III Room 4215 at the Universities at Shady Grove. Light refreshments will be served.

Speaker Bio: James D. (Don) Bowers is a Chief Scientist with 28 years of experience in securing cyber, telecommunications, RF, and SCADA networking projects. He is a CISSP and is currently the Chief Technology officer for Leidos’ National Security Operation. For the last 18 years and has been a key technical resource for many infrastructure security projects at Leidos (formerly SAIC.) During this time he led several critical internal research and development programs, including work involving public safety communications and wireless interoperability. His latest research projects involve cyberthreat operations and “big data” solutions to ingest, correlate, and visualize disparate data types and sources for true predictive situational awareness. During his 28-year career in the area of cyber and information security within the federal civilian, DoD, and commercial markets, Mr. Bowers has supported a number of programs and agencies including DARPA, DHS (TSA, US VISIT, Wireless Management Office, FEMA), TVA, NRC, FAA, FBI, Treasury and Interior Corning, Motorola, and others.