Content Tagged ‘Mobile’

Cross-Device Security Means “All Access”

January 13, 2012 - You may have a laptop, desktop, netbook, notebook, Ultrabook, tablet, Mac, or mobile phone. You might be single, married, or have ten kids. Either way, you probably have at least one, if not six or more, devices requiring comprehensive security. (continue reading...) Read more

Safe Banking On Your Mobile Device

January 11, 2012 - Mobile banking has experienced rapid growth over the last three years, in the U.S., more than doubling from 5% of online adults in 2007 to 12% by June 2010. Furthermore, Forrester predicts that one in five–or 50 million–U.S. adults will (continue reading...) Read more

Spam Emails Link To QR Codes

January 9, 2012 -   It was just a matter of time, and now it's happening. The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has started spotting spam messages that lead to URLs that use embedded QR codes. This is a clear movement and evolution (continue reading...) Read more

Is Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg giving away free iPhones and iPads?

January 9, 2012 - Has Apple really partnered up with Facebook? Is the social network really giving away free Apple iPhones and iPads to randomly selected individuals? Read more

New White Paper “Trends for 2012: Malware Goes Mobile”

January 6, 2012 - Many of you have read the last few weeks that we published posts on trends for 2012 in the field of malware and cybercrime. In this series I wrote a post based on the document that the Education and Research (continue reading...) Read more

Most Wi-Fi routers susceptible to hacking through security feature

December 29, 2011 - Researchers have published a paper showing how a feature implemented in modern Wi-Fi routers intended to make securing them easier, in fact makes them insecure by default. Read more

2012 McAfee Threat Predictions: A look at the latest threats that could affect consumers this coming year

December 27, 2011 - Each year, McAfee Labs™ looks at the trends that they’ve seen over the past 12 months to make predictions about the types of security threats they expect to see in 2012. While looking into the future can be hit or (continue reading...) Read more

SSCC 78 – IE 9 upgrades, Android malware, Carrier IQ and hospital shut down from malware

December 20, 2011 - Gary Korhonen joins Chet for this week's podcast discussing the automatic upgrade of Internet Explorer, Android Market malware, Carrier IQ and an infection that shut down a hospital in Georgia. Read more

2012 Predictions: More mobile malware and localized attacks

December 20, 2011 - I want share with you what ESET Latin America’s Research team thinks will be the main trends in malware and cybercrime in 2012. In our office it is usual to produce an analysis of emerging trends in a year-end report (continue reading...) Read more

2012 Security Predictions

December 20, 2011 - It’s the most wonderful time of the year. A time when we set (continue reading...) Read more

A little beta this, a little beta that

December 19, 2011 - It used to be that beta had a specific meaning. And I am not talking about Archimedes. Beta once meant an early, test version of a program. Run it, play with it, (continue reading...) Read more

How to stay safe when traveling for the holidays

December 14, 2011 - Whether you approach the holiday travel season with dread or excitement chances are you will be carrying one or more mobile devices and looking for those last minute travel bargains. Naked Security's Lisa Vaas provides her advice on what to (continue reading...) Read more

Windows Phone 7.5 susceptible to SMS hack

December 13, 2011 - A researcher has discovered a flaw in Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" that can crash the message center by simply receiving a malformed SMS, Tweet or Facebook message. Read more

Microsoft offers free Windows phones to Android malware victims

December 13, 2011 - Free Windows phones are being offered by Microsoft to users who describe their Android malware problems. Read more

SMS Fraud on the Android Market

December 13, 2011 - Thanks to Masaki Suenaga and Andy Xies for their analysis. Following the tweet from our @threatintel Twitter account last night about malicious applications targeting users in European countries, Symantec Security Response has identified another group of fraudulent apps on the (continue reading...) Read more

Malicious cloned games attack Google Android Market

December 12, 2011 - A malicious developer has created copies of the most popular games on Google's Android Market and added code to send SMS messages to premium line numbers. The Android Market security team pulled the malicious apps from the market, but how (continue reading...) Read more

Verizon blocks Google Wallet over security concerns

December 8, 2011 - Verizon and Google are sparring over who will control mobile phone payment systems, but consumers seem to be left without choice in the United States. Read more

EFF asks US Copyright Office to exempt jailbreaking from DMCA

December 2, 2011 - The EFF is asking the US Copyright Office to expand exemptions for jailbreaking/rooting devices to include game consoles and other smart devices. We explore the security risks and benefits of their proposal. (continue reading...) Read more

Carrier IQ clears the air on spying allegations

December 1, 2011 - Carrier IQ was interviewed today by AllThingsD and explained in detail what their application for smartphones does and does not do. Read more

Android permissions glitch allows eavesdropping, data theft

December 1, 2011 - Academic researchers have demonstrated flaws in the Android permissions system that could allow rogue applications to gain access to SMS messages, GPS or even record audio from affected devices. Read more

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