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Beyond these high-profile instances, various journalists and human rights activists have been targeted globally after a WhatsApp zero-day vulnerability was exploited by attackers who were able to inject spyware onto victims' phones. Vanunu, head of products vulnerability research at Check Point research, has seen his share of WhatsApp vulnerabilities - the researcher at Black Hat 2019 demoed several flaws in the messaging platform could be used to manipulate chats, for instance.

The latest version of the BitWarden Android client supports facial recognition. BitWarden is an outstanding password manager that includes all the bells and whistles you've come to expect from such a tool.

The latest version of the BitWarden Android client supports facial recognition. Find out how to enable it.

Mobile carriers have left the door wide open to SIM-swap attacks, particularly when it comes to prepaid accounts, researchers have found. According to PhishLabs, a typical attack would start with an attacker phishing personal and banking information - often via SMS phishing, which has the added benefit of confirming that a victim's cell phone number is an active line.

Weak security measures in place at several major wireless carriers in the United States make it easy for attackers to perform SIM swap attacks on prepaid mobile accounts, a recent study found. In a SIM swapping attack, social engineering is used to convince a wireless services provider to hand over control of the victim's phone number by modifying the SIM card attached to the phone and mobile account.

A mobile device management solution provides similar features that you would expect a systems management solution would use to manage PCs. However, mobile devices are not network-connected in the same manner as PCs, so a solution for mobile device management must rethink communications. The basic components of a mobile device management solution would consist of a server and an agent which would communicate with each other in order to complete commands and tasks.

Benefit Vantage, developer of IPification seamless authentication solution, and leading mobile operator 3 Hong Kong, are proud to announce the deployment of IPification mobile authentication solution. "Integrating our solution into 3 Hong Kong's mobile network and providing the best mobile authentication technology to the Hong Kong market is an important milestone for us," said Harry Cheung, Founder and President of IPification.

The Seagate Lyve Drive Mobile System is a portfolio of simple, secure, and efficient data management solutions built to activate the datasphere. "However, today's data management tools are too costly and inefficient for businesses to tap into data's full value. Lyve Drive is Seagate's first step toward a unified data experience, which will turn data's possibilities into tangible growth for the world's most critical industries."

Cybercrime increasingly went mobile in 2019, with everything from Apple iPhone jailbreaks and rogue Android apps to 5G and mobile-first phishing dominating the news coverage. Here are Threatpost's...