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Concerns about the privacy of library reading material date back to the early 20th century, explained Dorothea Salo, academic librarian and library-school instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to The Register. Library privacy became national news in 2005 when George Christian, then executive director of Library Connection, a Connecticut library consortium, received a National Security Letter from the FBI. The Feds, under the US Patriot Act, demanded library patron information without a warrant and imposed a lifetime gag order that forbade disclosure of the NSL. Christian and three colleagues, who became known as the Connecticut Four, refused to comply and a district court eventually found the gag order unconstitutional, prompting the government to drop its demand.
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Reddit is investigating a major outage blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's websites and mobile apps. Mobile users also report seeing an "Error: Choose failed Missing field 'user id'" error or an outage icon with the Reddit alien logo on the mobile app.
A recent Enea survey highlights a worrying trend in enterprise security: Following ChatGPT's launch, 76% of businesses are inadequately protected against rising AI-driven vishing and smishing threats. In this Help Net Security video, John Hughes, SVP, Head of Network Security Business Group at Enea, discusses how, despite advancements, most enterprises continue to incur losses due to mobile fraud, mainly through smishing and vishing.
Criminals are now texting T-Mobile and Verizon employees on their personal and work phones, trying to tempt them with cash to perform SIM swaps. The targeted employees have shared screenshots of messages offering $300 to those willing to aid the senders in their criminal endeavors.
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According to McAfee, apps, whether for communication, productivity, or gaming, are among the biggest threats to mobile security. Technavio expects the global mobile security software market to grow by $2.75 billion between 2020 and 2025, expanding at a CAGR of 9.68%. In this Help Net Security video, Michael Covington, VP of Portfolio Strategy at Jamf, discusses planning a mobile security strategy.
GSM Association's Fraud and Security Group has published the first version of a framework for describing, in a structured way, how adversaries attack and use mobile networks, based on the tactics, techniques and procedures that they use.The Mobile Threat Intelligence Framework is focused on mobile network-related attacks that are not already covered by existing public frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and MITRE FiGHT. In scope are 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, including all kind of telecommunication service enablers and future mobile technology evolutions.
When you think of virtual private networks, chances are pretty good your thoughts go to the tried and true VPNs of old, which made it possible for you to securely connect to your company network such that your local computer behaved as if it were within the company LAN. This concise guide, written by Jack Wallen for TechRepublic Premium, looks at something different - mobile VPNs and why you need them, how they work and what you should look for in a VPN service. You might be at home, or you might be working on a coffee shop wireless network.
The Mobile Security Framework is an open-source research platform for mobile application security, encompassing Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile. MobSF can be used for mobile app security assessment, penetration testing, malware analysis, and privacy evaluation.