Android should be proud of its dominate market share, which climbed up to 33% after only four years in the business. With that much success, it’s no surprise that the popular operating system has become the number one target of malware, according to a report from McAfee senior architect Igor…
New Wikileaks files expose widespread mobile phone, email hacking
Wikileaks has released dozens of new documents highlighting the state of the once covert, but now lucrative private sector global surveillance industry. View full post on hacking tools – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
New Wikileaks files expose widespread mobile phone, email hacking
Wikileaks has released dozens of new documents highlighting the state of the once covert, but now lucrative private sector global surveillance industry. View full post on hacking tools – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Mobile spyware raises ethical and legal questions
In 2003, Atir Raihan began work on a product that has gone on to gain infamy in the world’s security industry. His idea: to build a spyware program for mobile phones that would allow people to catch a cheating spouse. “I remember eight years ago, having a drink with friends…
RIM’s BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, (Thu, Dec 1st)
Blackberry Mobile Fusion hit our radar for obvious reasons. The exploding mobile/devices space presents deep challenges from a device management perspective, but imagine a focused security model with broad device diversity. This is the solution RIM has announced in Blackberry Mobile Fusion including, from our slightly more narrow perspective: Asset management…
Mobile tracking vendor Carrier IQ drops legal threats
Software vendor Carrier IQ has withdrawn its threat to sue a security researcher for saying that its software helps phone companies surreptitiously track users of many popular mobile phones. Company CEO Larry Lenhart, also apologised to researcher Trevor Eckhart for making the threat and expressed his interest in having an…
Bitdefender officially releases Mobile Security app for Android (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends – After five months of beta testing, Bitdefenderâs Mobile Security app for Android devices is officially ready for download. And it couldnât come at a better time; according to a number of recent reports, malware makers have been flooding the Android Market left and right, making it increasingly…
The 411 on Mobile Banking for Beginners
Mobile banking is the newest thing in deposit accounts. This primer brings newbies up to speed. View full post on cellphone security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
X1 Mobile Search review
The Apple iPad is increasingly replacing laptops as people’s portable computers. It’s certainly small and nifty to use. But what happens if you’ve got an iPad (or iPhone) and want to access files on your main PC or Mac? You’re out of luck. X1 Mobile Search aims to solve the…
Threatdown for mobile viruses? Maybe not (Appolicious)
Appolicious – In a new report on “threats,” McAfee reported that the Android OS from Google is the biggest target for malware. The security software company said that malware aimed at Android had increased 37 percent since the second quarter. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full…