According to the 2018 McKinsey Global Institute’s Smart Cities: Digital Solutions for a More Livable Future, more than half of the world’s population resides in cities, with another 2.5 billion new residents expected by 2050. Cities face increasing environmental pressures and infrastructure needs – and growing demands from residents to […]
It’s a pretty amazing headline: “‘hacked Amazon boss’s phone’, says investigator” For those of us dedicated to protecting mobile devices, we knew it was only a matter of time before a well-known device compromise became the proverbial tipping point for public awareness on the vulnerability of mobile devices. We’ve seen millions […]
We see a lot of confusion in the market about precisely what it means to jailbreak a device–and that confusion could lead to serious problems, especially regarding a hacker performing a jailbreak to attack a device. The security industry is notoriously full of acronyms, buzzwords and generally opaque jargon. Here at […]
In the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s revelations about mass-surveillance by the U.S. government in 2013, technology companies have made a serious effort to convince their customers that they are in support of strong privacy by incorporating encryption policies. Popular messaging apps like Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram have added end-to-end encryption […]
Financial companies see mobility as a competitive frontier for their business, and rightfully so. A superior mobile experience now does more to differentiate a bank than 1000 physical branches. As we’ve said before, killer banking apps are valuable assets to financial institutions, as customers expect to handle almost every aspect […]
Whether deployed to steal ammo for political scandals or classified documents for military sabotage, a cyberattack on a mobile device with access to sensitive information is a matter of national security. And yet, mobile devices are often left out of the national security conversation. Obama’s recently implemented Cybersecurity National Action […]