Mobile security threats: Lack of visibility is putting businesses at risk
A significant lack of visibility into devices and networks is putting businesses at risk for data leakage and phishing attacks, according to a study conducted by Enterprise …
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Mobile fraud is increasing, attack rates rising 24% year-over-year
ThreatMetrix released new cybercrime insights from the first half of 2018, revealing a sharp rise in fraud attack levels on mobile transactions. As consumer behavior …
Who’s trying to eavesdrop on your customers’ encrypted mobile traffic?
The number one source of TLS/SSL Man in the Middle (MitM) attacks on encrypted mobile traffic are not corporate firewalls or captive portals used by hotels, airports and other …
Cryptomining apps are on the rise, malicious apps in app stores decline
RiskIQ analyzed 120 mobile app stores and more than two billion daily scanned resources. The findings showed that taking advantage of the popularity and volatility of the …
High-level vulnerabilities discovered in 84% of Android shopping apps
More than 84% of the shopping apps have three or more high-level security vulnerabilities, according to a security assessment by Appknox and Seworks. A total of 274 …
Protecting your business behind a shield of privacy
In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2018, Francis Knott, VP of Business Development at Silent Circle, talks about the modern privacy landscape, and introduces Silent …
Risky business: Are mobile employees compromising business info?
Americans logged 457.4 million trips for business in 2016, and there is no sign of business travel slowing down, with global business travel spend expected to rise 5.8 percent …
How attackers can exploit iTunes Wi-Fi sync to gain lasting control of target devices
An iOS feature called iTunes Wi-Fi sync, which allows a user to manage their iOS device without physically connecting it to their computer, could be exploited by attackers to …
Your Android phone says it’s fully patched, but is it really?
How do fully-maintained (i.e., patched) Android phones end up getting exploited? Searching for an answer to that question spurred security researchers to analyze thousands of …
Businesses suspect their mobile workers are being hacked
More than half (57%) of organisations suspect their mobile workers have been hacked or caused a mobile security issue in the last 12 months, according to the iPass Mobile …
