Security News

Mobile security – how to have your cake and eat it [PODCAST]
2018-07-23 11:43

Catch up with Day 5 of our Security SOS Week - here's the fifth and final episode of our week-long online security summit.

Bizarre mobile attack in India uses MDM to target only 13 phones
2018-07-16 13:04

A highly targeted campaign against 13 iPhones used an open source mobile device management system to control devices, according to Cisco Talos.

Bogus Mobile Device Management system used to hack iPhones in India
2018-07-13 13:44

Baker's dozen pwned by tricksy attack Enterprise iPhone users in India have been targeted through a sophisticated and highly targeted attack run through bogus Mobile Device Management (MDM) servers.…

Don't fear 1337 exploits. Sloppy mobile, phishing defenses a much bigger corp IT security threat
2018-07-05 21:24

DARPA-funded white hat emits timeless advice AppSec EU IT admins should focus on the fundamentals of network security, rather than worry about sophisticated state-sponsored zero-day attacks,...

3 mobile security tips to thwart fraudsters
2018-07-05 17:57

An RSA fraud report makes it clear that phishing and mobile app and browser cyberattacks should be on your radar. Here are the steps mobile device users should take to keep hackers at bay.

Traffic Analysis of the LTE Mobile Standard
2018-07-02 14:35

Interesting research in using traffic analysis to learn things about encrypted traffic. It's hard to know how critical these vulnerabilities are. They're very hard to close without wasting a huge...

Venafi Enterprise Mobility Protect delivers visibility and machine identity on mobile endpoints
2018-06-29 12:32

Venafi announced Venafi Enterprise Mobility Protect, a solution that safeguards the machine identities used on endpoints that access enterprise networks and resources. Venafi Enterprise Mobility...

Mobile is the new frontier for malicious bots
2018-06-28 11:30

Distil Networks analyzed over 100 million mobile devices on its networks. The findings suggest that sophisticated cybercriminals and bot operators now implement a new technique—leveraging mobile...

Mobile Devices Exposed to Spying via Malicious Batteries: Researchers
2018-06-25 13:38

A team of researchers has demonstrated that specially crafted batteries installed in a smartphone can allow malicious actors to harvest and exfiltrate sensitive information. read more

Supreme Court Rules on Mobile Location Data: Get a Warrant
2018-06-25 13:02

ACLU Says Decision 'Provides a Groundbreaking Update to Privacy Rights'The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that location data generated by mobile phones is protected by the Fourth Amendment, meaning...