Security News

Attackers can steal smartphone users’ PINs by tapping into data collected by mobile sensors (Help Net Security)
2017-04-12 18:21

Researchers have demonstrated that a malicious website or app could work out smartphone users’ PINs or passwords based just on the data collected by various motion sensors on modern mobile...

Mobile payment card cloning: Understanding the risks (Help Net Security)
2017-04-12 15:25

Mobile contactless payments have grown exponentially and Host Card Emulation (HCE) – the possibility to emulate payment cards on a mobile device, without dependency on special Secure Element...

Baseband Zero Day Exposes Millions of Mobile Phones to Attack (Threatpost)
2017-04-07 20:10

A previously undisclosed baseband vulnerability impacting Huawei smartphones, laptop WWAN modules and IoT components was revealed Thursday at the Infiltrate Conference

Growing Risk In IoT & Mobile App Security (InfoSecIsland)
2017-04-07 17:44

IoT and mobile app security is at considerable risk, as confusion of who owns security within the development, testing and implementation process remains in question.