Security News

T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account
2018-05-18 18:35

T-Mobile is investigating a retail store employee who allegedly made unauthorized changes to a subscriber's account in an elaborate scheme to steal the customer's three-letter Instagram username....

Real-Time Mobile Phone Location Tracking: Questions Mount
2018-05-18 18:18

After Securus Technologies Gets Hacked, LocationSmart Fixes Data-Exposing FlawFollowing reports about U.S. companies that enable government and other users to access real-time tracking information...

RedDawn Espionage Campaign Shows Mobile APTs on the Rise
2018-05-18 12:42

The Sun Team APT, likely linked to North Korea, uses Google Play and Facebook as attack vectors.

Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers in Real Time Via Its Web Site
2018-05-17 18:29

LocationSmart, a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy...

Mobile first: Security concerns and solutions
2018-05-08 17:00

The majority of people – 83%, in fact – use their mobile devices to go online. 89% of these users connect to the internet via a mobile device every day. However, their security is severely lacking...

Risky business: Are mobile employees compromising business info?
2018-05-08 11:45

Americans logged 457.4 million trips for business in 2016, and there is no sign of business travel slowing down, with global business travel spend expected to rise 5.8 percent to $1.6 trillion in...

Mobile Phone Maker Settles With FTC Over Data Collection
2018-05-02 17:56

Mobile phone maker BLU Products this week reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations that software in its devices collected users’ personal information.   read more

No way, RSA! Security conference's mobile app embarrassingly insecure
2018-04-20 21:20

Sorry about the hard-coded passwords, can we sell you some crypto now? RSA has copped to a security vulnerability in the mobile app it served to attendees of its annual security conference, held...

Why MDM is a relic of the past for mobile security
2018-04-18 19:03

To deal with BYOD, insecure endpoints, and data leakage, many enterprises opted for MDM solutions-but they've turned out to be overbearing and ineffective.

How mobile devices became fundamentally more secure than PCs
2018-04-18 18:58

Having learned the lessons of the antivirus and malware wars on computers, ARM architected a secure hardware enclave that mobile devices have the option to tap into.