Your Older Android Phone Is Getting a New Scam Defense — Here’s What Google Changed
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What happened
TechRepublic security feed covering Android scam-call and accessibility-abuse defenses, Chrome ClickFix and suspicious-site protections, critical PHP flaws affecting European government websites, Microsoft Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities including an exploited Windows zero-day, Exchange and Remote Desktop update issues, and broader AI-agent, privacy, governance, and enterprise security developments. The most urgent items are the actively exploited Microsoft zero-day, critical PHP vulnerabilities, and scam-enabled abuse of browser or mobile features.
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