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Syniverse and Twilio announced that they have entered into a partnership to accelerate the next wave of innovation in mobile communications and drive long-term growth. Through this partnership, Syniverse will benefit from Twilio's breadth of experience serving Enterprise customers to capitalize on the next wave of growth in mobile communications.
In its' Mobile Malware Evolution 2020, Kaspersky documents the current mobile threat landscape and identifies 2021 mobile security trends. "We saw a decrease in the number of attacks in the first half of the year, which can be attributed to the confusion of the first months of the pandemic," wrote Victor Chebyshev, a mobile security researcher at Kaspersky and author of the report.
The murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, which is said to be have been aided by digital surveillance, was ordered by the head of the Saudi Arabian government, US intelligence has publicly asserted. Last week, Uncle Sam's Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement fingering Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for orchestrating the killing, which a lawsuit claims was aided by tracking technology provided by spyware biz NSO Group.
American telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after an unknown number of customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The FBI shared guidance on how to defend against SIM swapping following an increase in the number of SIM hijacking attacks targeting cryptocurrency adopters and investors.
Mavenir announced a strategic collaboration with Red Hat to certify Mavenir applications for mobile networks with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, creating solutions and platforms to transform the mobile infrastructure towards the new future of containers and 5G. Taking advantage of the cloud-native network functions provided by Mavenir and the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform with Red Hat OpenShift, the intent is to develop common solution blueprints for transformation to 5G for Mavenir's 5G Core, vRAN and IMS workloads. "We are proud to work with a leading company like Red Hat to certify our workloads and to continue to demonstrate the capabilities of Mavenir cloud-native software," said Pardeep Kohli, president and CEO of Mavenir.
For public health officials, contact tracing remains critical to managing the spread of the coronavirus - particularly as it appears that variants of the virus could be more transmissible. The need for widespread contact tracing at the start of the pandemic led tech giants Apple and Google to announce a plan to turn iOS and Android phones into mobile "Beacons" that alert users who opt in of potential exposure to COVID-19.
To secure information, it is critical to have an endpoint security strategy that reliably encompasses mobile devices and embraces all their aspects. Inevitably, when EDR is used to protect all endpoints in an indistinct manner, it creates a security gap at the mobile level.
SecurityHQ launch their new mobile app, SecurityHQ Response. Which is why SecurityHQ is now part of the few MSSPs that offers an app for clients to handle and respond to incidents anytime, anywhere.
mGage, a Vivial company, is mobile messaging solution allowing enterprise clients across a diverse range of end-markets to effectively engage with their customers through all mobile channels for a variety of use cases. mGage serves its customers through its cloud-based enterprise mobile messaging platform Communicate Pro, their API solution Connect, as well as Omnichannel mobile messaging offering such as SMS, MMS and RCS. Communicate Pro is mGage's cloud-based, enterprise-level messaging platform that connects brands with their customers through all major mobile messaging channels.
The free version of LastPass - which people use to store passwords, notes, credit card details and so on - currently works across devices; a single login will give you access to all the associated data. From March 16, users will be required to choose which "Active device type" they want to use for the free service.