Security News

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...

Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data
2018-06-22 20:30

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government needs to obtain a court-ordered warrant to gather location data on mobile device users. The decision is a major development for privacy...

Supreme Court Bolsters Mobile-Phone Privacy Rights
2018-06-22 17:40

Supreme Court decision requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant to gain access to cellphone records for tracking citizens.

Thousands of Mobile Apps Expose Their Unprotected Firebase Hosted Databases
2018-06-21 11:32

Mobile security researchers have discovered unprotected Firebase databases of thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications that are exposing over 100 million data records, including plain text...

Thousands of Mobile Apps Leak Data from Firebase Databases
2018-06-20 15:56

Thousands of mobile applications running on iOS and Android have exposed over 113 gigabytes of data from 2,300 unsecured Firebase databases, enterprise mobile security firm Appthority says in a...

3,000+ mobile apps leaking data from unsecured Firebase databases
2018-06-20 11:30

Appthority published research on its discovery of a new HospitalGown threat variant that occurs when app developers fail to require authentication to Google Firebase databases. Appthority security...

8 biggest risk factors for company-owned mobile devices and how to avoid them
2018-06-19 19:50

Mobile devices pose some unique problems when it comes to securing data. Learn some of the challenges and recommendations for success.