More than half of the U.S. adult population has a smart phone, the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports, and 25 percent of Americans older than 15 own a tablet. So it’s no surprise that more and more Americans are making purchases with their mobile devices. In fact, IBM found that mobile sales exceeded [...]
Fortinet recently surveyed 3,200 “Gen Y” employees ages 21 to 32 about device policies at work, and found that many are willing to break work policies when it comes to accessing personal devices or storing sensitive data on personal cloud storage. Respondents were surveyed on several topics, including the use of mobile devices at work, [...]
The Mobile Secutity: BYOD, mCommerce, Consumer & Enterprise 2013-2018 report by Juniper Research finds that more than 80 percent of smartphones devices remain unprotected from malware attacks. As mobile operating systems, including smartphones and tablets, continue to increase in usage, cyber criminals are transitioning their focus from PCs toward the mobile platform.Although there is an [...]
This week, Apple announced the brand new iPhone 5s that includes a “Touch ID” sensor, a fingerprint sensor on the Home button below the screen. Brett Molina at USA Today reports that iPhone 5s users can replace the “slide to unlock” feature with Touch ID and even make purchases on the iTunes, App Store or [...]
It doesn’t take much for a hacker to create an attack platform that is capable of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of data. In fact, all it takes is a $20 router, less than an hour and little technical expertise. Experian’s Chief Innovation Officer Adam Tyler wants to show you how alarmingly easy [...]
Juniper Networks Mobile Threat Center released their third annual mobile threats report, which found an increasing presence of mobile application malware in Android devices. Compared to the 28,500 mobile malware apps detected in 2011, Juniper found a total of 276,259 mobile malware apps from March 2012 to March 2013, All Things D reported.While all mobile [...]
The Ponemon Institute released this week “The Risk of Regulated Data on Mobile Devices,” a study that focuses on the risks associated with employee access to regulated data, including health and financial information, through a company or personal mobile device. The report revealed nearly half of IT professionals cannot determine whether their companies are yielding [...]
This June, organizations across the country are celebrating National Internet Safety Month, a nationwide effort to spread awareness on Internet dangers and provide resources to educate children, teens and adults on preventative measures.National Internet Safety Month was passed as a resolution in 2005 by the U.S. Senate to raise awareness of the need for online [...]
This week, Kaspersky Lab discovered the first-known targeted attack to use Android malware, which targeted Tibetan activists and other ethnic groups in China. "The malware [used] a combination of e-mail hacking, ‘spear phishing’ and a Trojan built specifically for Android smartphones," said Ars Technica.Mashable said that the malware was "sent as an attachment in an [...]
