Looks like mobile device security is on nobody’s mind
Despite recent high-profile data theft attacks, much of the American workforce has not taken action to protect information on their personal and corporate-issued devices. …
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HTC phone stores fingerprints in easily accessible plaintext
Pressing a finger on your mobile phone’s fingerprint scanner has to be the easiest, most seamless way to unlock the device, and this is why more and more manufacturers …
Getting BYOD right
According to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab in conjunction with B2B International, around half of the consumers surveyed also use their devices for work. However, only …
The state of the mobile ecosystem
At Black Hat USA 2015, Appthority released their second Q2 2015 Enterprise Mobile Threat Report, for which their researchers analyzed security and risky behaviors in three …
Over 5,000 mobile apps found performing in-app ad fraud
Of the $20 billion projected to be spent by advertisers on mobile advertising in 2015, $1 billion will effectively be lost due to in-app ad fraud, warns ad fraud detection and …
NowSecure Lab cloud: Mobile app assessment environment
NowSecure was one of the companies that caught my attention at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. While it initially seemed like a new player in the field, the …
4,900 new Android malware strains discovered every day
“G DATA security experts discovered 440,267 new Android malware strains in the first quarter of 2015, which means that a new mobile malware strain for Android was …
Keyboard app bug puts millions of Samsung mobile users at risk, researcher claims
A vulnerability in the Swift keyboard, which comes pre-installed on Samsung mobile devices, can be exploited by remote attackers to secretly install malicious apps, access the …
Risks from fraudulent mobile apps and unauthorized app stores
Companies spanning retailers, travel companies, media & entertainment, gambling firms and banks have far more mobile apps owned by them or referencing their brand than …
Swift adoption of cloud and mobile drives insider threats
Bitglass surveyed 500 IT and security practitioners and found that 62 percent have seen an increase in insider threats over the last 12 months.As more data leaves the network …
Enhanced security for corporate information on mobile devices
Enterprise organizations are continually looking for ways to effectively secure sensitive corporate information on mobile devices. At Infosecurity Europe 2015, TITUS announces …
Researchers track Android users by collecting accelerator readings
A group of researchers from Nanjing University, China, have demonstrated that Android users’ movements can be tracked by simply analyzing the data provided by the …