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Mozilla now offers a VPN service that protects Windows and mobile devices, and soon your Linux and macOS desktops. Mozilla has released their VPN service, which is currently available for Android, iOS, Windows, and will soon be available for Linux and macOS. The service offers fast network speeds, location selection, zero activity logs stored on Mozilla servers, is currently available in six countries, runs on a global network of servers powered by Mullvad, uses device-level encryption, has no bandwidth restrictions, makes use of 280+ servers in 30+ countries, and only costs you $4.99 per month for up to five devices.
The usage of banking services through a mobile app has quickly been embraced by consumers. Currently, researches indicate that mobile banking apps are often not as secure as expected.
Popular mobile messengers expose personal data via discovery services that allow users to find contacts based on phone numbers from their address book, according to researchers. When installing a mobile messenger like WhatsApp, new users can instantly start texting existing contacts based on the phone numbers stored on their device.
With the new Mobile SDK, TeamViewer offers a solution that ensures exactly that: if the smartphone user leaves the app to be supported, the screen contents on the support employee's side are greyed out. The SDK contains a collection of programming tools and libraries that allow developers to integrate the remote support functions of TeamViewer into their app as a white label solution - without much programming effort.
Verizon and Inseego launched the Inseego MiFi M2100 5G UW mobile hotspot, built to deliver blazing-fast speeds across Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband1 and 4G LTE network. The MiFi M2100 5G UW is now available at Verizon for $16.66 per month for 24 months on Verizon Device Payment.
The Dutch national communication security authority, NLNCSA, has cleared international medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra's mobile VPN for use up to and including the RESTRICTED security level. Sectra's mobile VPN, for use up to and including the RESTRICTED security level, is a solution that was produced through a strategic partnership with Samsung.
For most of us, voting by anything other than a paper ballot or a voting machine is a foreign concept. Due to the pandemic and shelter in place restrictions, various alternatives have been considered this year - in particular, voting via our mobile devices.
Apple said on Thursday it would give developers until next year to comply with a software change expected to stymie targeted advertising in iPhone and iPad apps. An update coming to Apple's iOS mobile software includes a requirement for apps to ask users' permission to collect and share device-identifying data used to make ads more relevant.
While 5G sometimes seems like the panacea for just about everything, it will likely intensify the already common friction between NetOps and SecOps teams that will take part in deployments and operations of the 5G mobile network. 5G standardization has an enhanced security framework over 4G, but there are various new implementations and complexities of design, and NetOps and SecOps teams need to come together to achieve greater agility and accommodate changes and challenges to their new mobile networks more quickly and more efficiently.
A group of academics from three German universities has decided to investigate whether and how mobile app vendors respond to subject access requests, and the results of their four-year undercover field study are dispiriting. "In three iterations between 2015 and 2019, we sent subject access requests to vendors of 225 mobile apps popular in Germany. Throughout the iterations, 19 to 26 % of the vendors were unreachable or did not reply at all. Our subject access requests were fulfilled in 15 to 53 % of the cases, with an unexpected decline between the GDPR enforcement date and the end of our study," they shared.