Security News

Zimperium Program Buys Exploits for Patched Mobile Vulnerabilities (Threatpost)
2017-02-01 14:40

Zimperium announced Tuesday its N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program that will reward researchers for Android and iOS exploits.

Charger Mobile Ransomware Removed from Google Play (Threatpost)
2017-01-25 12:00

Security researchers have identified a new and evasive mobile ransomware strain called Charger on the Google Play app store.

Charger mobile ransomware steals contacts and SMS messages (Help Net Security)
2017-01-24 20:21

Check Point’s mobile security researchers have discovered a new ransomware in Google Play, dubbed Charger. Charger was found embedded in an app called EnergyRescue. The infected app steals...

Growing risk associated with mobile and IoT application security (Help Net Security)
2017-01-19 12:45

Despite widespread concern about the security of mobile and Internet of Things applications, organizations are ill-prepared for the risks they pose, according to research conducted by the Ponemon...

Mobile forensics firm Cellebrite confirms data breach (Help Net Security)
2017-01-13 18:21

Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite has announced that it has suffered a data breach following an unauthorized access to an external web server. “The impacted server included a legacy...

Employees rely largely on personally owned mobile devices in the workplace (Help Net Security)
2016-11-30 12:15

Mobile device adoption in the workplace is not yet mature, found a recent survey from Gartner. Although 80 percent of workers surveyed received one or more corporate-issued devices, desktops are...

Riskiest shopping malls for mobile devices (Help Net Security)
2016-11-18 14:00

As the biggest shopping weekend of the year in the US approaches, Skycure is advising shoppers to beware of mobile threats while browsing in both physical and online stores. Researchers found that...

Mobile pros are addicted to Wi-Fi, connectivity impacts their choices (Help Net Security)
2016-11-16 12:45

iPass surveyed more than 1,700 mobile professionals worldwide about their connectivity habits and preferences, highlighting the ever-increasing influence of Wi-Fi on our daily lives. 40 percent of...

Researchers reveal WiFi-based mobile password discovery attack (Help Net Security)
2016-11-14 19:28

A group of researchers has come up with WindTalker, a new attack method for discovering users’ passwords and PINs as they enter them into their smartphones. WindTalker is the name of the attack,...