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Keysight Technologies, a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced it is accelerating the development of flexible virtualized networks and high-value mobile services with NVIDIA. Mobile operators are in the process of transforming their networks, using a dynamic virtualized radio access network architecture and open RAN standard interfaces, to cost-effectively and flexibly deliver a broad range of services that rely on low latencies and high throughput. Keysight offers solutions that enable mobile operators and network equipment manufacturers to validate 5G and legacy radio access networks as well as core networks that are critical to ensuring the end-user experience of applications using vRAN architecture.
Menlo Security, a leader in cloud security, announced its Global Cloud Proxy Platform built on an Isolation Core is integrated with VMware Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management to deliver mobile isolation capabilities. The solution will allow Workspace ONE UEM customers to better protect mobile devices from ransomware and phishing attacks by isolating threats in the cloud and preventing them from reaching the endpoint.
The malware authors behind TrickBot banking Trojan have developed a new Android app that can intercept one-time authorization codes sent to Internet banking customers via SMS or relatively more secure push notifications, and complete fraudulent transactions. The name TrickMo is a direct reference to a similar kind of Android banking malware called ZitMo that was developed by Zeus cybercriminal gang in 2011 to defeat SMS-based two-factor authentication.
Four major U.S. carriers are developing a new single sign-on variant they believe will do away with the need for passwords. Their solution is new mobile app called ZenKey that securely ties the user's device to the carrier, and the carrier logs on to the service.
Kristin Del Rosso and other threat researchers with cybersecurity company Lookout have found a new kind of coronavirus cyberattack designed to spread potentially malicious Android applications that appear to be the most recent piece of tooling in a larger mobile surveillance campaign operating out of Libya and targeting Libyan individuals. At least three new apps related to coronavirus have been created using the same infrastructure as those applications and the Lookout investigation discovered that they can be traced back to IP addresses operated by Libyan Telecom and Technology, a consumer internet service provider.
Authorities in the United States and Israel are eyeing ways to use mobile-phone and other location-based data to help control the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19, raising serious privacy concerns about the practice of using and sharing people's personal data during the time of a global health crisis. The government is mulling this potential compiling of people's personal and location-specific data with the purpose of mapping the spread of infection and using this knowledge to provide solutions to the problem, according to the report.
Pradeo supports companies by offering its mobile security services for free. The publisher of mobile security solutions is committed to going beyond borders and opens the use of its solutions to all companies around the world who request them.
ZimperiumZimperium, the global leader in mobile threat defense, announced a first-of-its-kind complete Mobile Application Protection Suite, a comprehensive solution that helps organizations protect their mobile apps throughout their entire life cycle. "Until now, organizations trying to secure their mobile apps have been forced to piecemeal security solutions together," said Nitin Bhatia, chief strategy officer at Zimperium.
The launch of "Mobile Optimization Pro," powered by NetMotion, further expands Deutsche Telekom's offerings in the mobile enterprise space and gives customers in verticals such as transportation and logistics, automotive, manufacturing, public safety, professional services and pharmaceuticals access to powerful connectivity solutions that improve the user experience. Combining Deutsche Telekom's position as Germany's leading business telecommunications provider with NetMotion's expertise in enhancing security and user experience for mobile workers, Germany's remote and mobile workforces will benefit from always on, optimized and encrypted cellular and Wi-Fi connections that help increase productivity.
Hackers are using hidden mobile apps, third-party login and counterfeit gaming videos to target consumers, according to McAfee. Hidden apps are the most active mobile threat facing consumers, generating nearly 50% of all malicious activities in 2019- a 30% increase from 2018.