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Mobile security firms will help protect Google Play

Google has partnered with mobile security companies ESET, Lookout and Zimperium to identify potentially harmful and unwanted apps before they are listed on Google Play. …

mobile apps
Blacklisted apps increase 20%, attackers focus on tax-branded key terms

In 2018, global app spending hit $101 billion and is expected to surpass that this year. Mobile is a significant portion of the overall corporate attack surface where security …

thief
Fake mobile app fraud tripled in first half of 2019

In Q2 2019, RSA Security identified 57,406 total fraud attacks worldwide. Of these, phishing attacks were the most prevalent (37%), followed by fake mobile apps (usually apps …

cybercrime
Fraudsters no longer operate in silos, they are attacking across industries and organizations

From January 2019 through June 2019, LexisNexis Risk Solutions recorded 16.4 billion transactions, of which 277 million were human-initiated attacks, a 13% increase over the …

smartphone hear
Is your smartphone secretly listening to you?

The question of whether our smartphones are always listening to us is cropping up on online forums and Twitter almost daily, and most users have had the experience of talking …

Google Play
Google will pay for data abuse reports related to popular Android apps, Chrome extensions

Google is expanding the Google Play Security Reward Program (GPSRP) to include all apps in Google Play with 100 million or more installs, and is launching a new Developer Data …

leak
Digital bank Monzo urges customers to change PINs following security breach

Monzo, a UK-based mobile-only bank, has notified a subset of its users that their PINs have been inadvertently leaked into internal log files and were accessible to some of …

FaceApp
FaceApp privacy panic: Be careful which apps you use

The privacy panic over FaceApp, the selfie-editing mobile app that makes photo subjects younger, older or turns them into members of the opposite sex, has been overblown. The …

iPhone
Two-thirds of iOS apps don’t use App Transport Security

Most iOS apps don’t take advantage of App Transport Security​ (ATS), a networking security feature offered by Apple that ensures encrypted connections between apps and …

Android
Google will check apps by new developers more thoroughly

In an attempt to thwart Android developers who are set to distribute malicious apps through Google Play, Google will be taking more time when reviewing apps by developers with …

mobile apps
Consumers willing to dump apps that collect private data, but can’t tell which are doing so

Consumers are increasingly leery of third parties using and capitalizing on their private data. Two in three consumers are willing to dump data-collecting apps if the …

Android
The privacy risks of pre-installed software on Android devices

Many pre-installed apps facilitate access to privileged data and resources, without the average user being aware of their presence or being able to uninstall them. On the one …

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