As millions watched the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, I know many of us in the cyber industry were interested to see if, and how, cybersecurity would be addressed. The subject has finally hit the mainstream media, movies, magazines and now the national stage! This is a […]
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Cutting through the Weekly Mobile Security Noise: The State Of Cyber Security
This week the nation watched as the president of the United States of America attempted to touch on the nation’s ever increasing cyber security threat. While it was encouraging to see an issue that has long been kept somewhat out of site from the American public finally hit the mainstream […]
No Patch to Same Origin Policy (SOP) Bypass in Old Android Devices
By: Zuk Avraham and Rachel Ackerly Is Google abandoning their customers? A recent policy change at Google to stop producing security updates for Android 4.3 or older could jeopardize roughly 930 million Android users. This translates into about 60% of all Android users, many who would never realize they were […]
Cutting through the Weekly Mobile Security Noise: The Year in Review and the Year Ahead in Security
With 2014 quickly winding down and the dawn of 2015 upon us, this week was a time to reflect as much as it was to look ahead. Many of this week’s news stories focused on the “Year of the Hack.” Others posted predictions on possible security risks in the year […]
Cutting through the Weekly Security Noise: Social, Payments and Apps Pose Big Enterprise Security Challenges in 2015
It’s a popular time of year for data about 2014 and prognostications for 2015. This week saw a number of stories citing data and trend information on how enterprises face a big challenge over the next calendar year. Here were some of the stories we tracked: • Mobile Payment Adoption […]
Cutting through the Weekly Mobile Security Noise
Introducing Our New Blog Series: Cutting through the Weekly Mobile Security Noise The worlds of mobile and security generate news at a breakneck pace. And when you operate at the intersection of those two markets, like Zimperium, it can be overwhelming to process what’s happening on an hour-to-hour […]
Welcoming Shridhar Mittal to the Z family
Earlier this year I promised big changes at Zimperium. We announced our Series A funding, launched Zimperium Mobile Threat Defense system with the World’s first Mobile IPS, and most recently made zANTI2 our award-winning mobile assessment tool completely free for community usage. Well, I’m excited to say that we have […]
Nation-state attacks exist on iOS
Yesterday reports surfaced about China potentially using malware targeted at iPhone users to spy on Hong Kong protesters. Is it possible that a nation-state attack on an iOS device would be so bold as to use the words ODAY in its attack? Possibly… But what’s more important here is not […]
LinkedIn 0day Vulnerability Puts Your Data at Risk
Today, corporate networks and websites face varying degrees of cyber-threats – ranging from widespread well-publicized threats like the recent Heartbleed bug, to those that are less well-known, but just as damaging, like “Man-in-the-Middle” (MITM) attacks. The latter cyber-threat threats are network attacks that allow hackers to intercept users’ internet communication, […]
How 2014 is going to be Z-Year
ZIMPERIUM recently announced a Series A fund-raising round of $8 Million. This will allow us to support all organizations demanding a change in current mobile security offerings; they are seeking advanced, next-generation security protection comparable to what you would expect in today’s sophisticated enterprise networks, but a solution which protects […]