Security News

Samsung Smartphones Get Encrypted Communications
2018-02-27 17:26

KoolSpan this week announced a partnership with Samsung to implement secure communications on Samsung smartphones. read more

How to track smartphone users when they’ve turned off GPS
2018-02-07 21:44

As it turns out, turning off location services (e.g., GPS) on your smartphone doesn’t mean an attacker can’t use the device to pinpoint your location. A group of Princeton University researchers...

Week in review: The future of smartphone security, automated cyber threat anticipation
2018-02-05 01:32

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Authentication today: Moving beyond passwords A new global study from IBM Security examining consumer perspectives...

The future of smartphone security: Hardware isolation
2018-02-02 13:00

Mobile spyware has become increasingly more ubiquitous in corporate networks and devices. In a 2017 study, Check Point has found that out of the 850 organizations that they queried, 100% had...

Rising Attack Vector for Industrial IoT: Smartphone Apps
2018-01-12 11:48

Mobile Apps Can Be Exploited To Tamper With Industrial Control SystemsFresh research into mobile apps designed to control ICS systems from afar has unearthed unnerving findings. More than 20...

FBI Director Calls Smartphone Encryption an ‘Urgent Public Safety Issue’
2018-01-10 18:37

The debate over the government's authority to access private encrypted data on digital devices was amplified when the Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray called unbreakable...

80% of smartphones will have on-device AI capabilities by 2022
2018-01-04 13:58

Artificial intelligence (AI) features will become a critical product differentiator for smartphone vendors that will help them to acquire new customers while retaining current users, according to...

FBI Still Trying to Unlock Texas Killer's Smartphone
2017-11-09 12:18

Mass Shooting Tragedy Sparks Fresh Encryption DebateThe FBI is still working to unlock the mobile phone of Devin P. Kelley after he shot and killed 26 people in a church in a rural Texas town. The...

Smartphone Exploits Earn Hackers Over $500,000
2017-11-02 10:10

White hat hackers earned more than half a million dollars at this year’s Mobile Pwn2Own competition after successfully demonstrating exploits against Samsung’s Galaxy S8, Apple’s iPhone 7 and...