Planned your holiday travel just yet? Too soon? Not according to experts who told The Today Show the best time to book your Thanksgiving AND Christmas travel plans are before Halloween. After Halloween, fares go up, layover possibilities increase as does ending up in the middle seat. The truth is, […]
People are slowly learning to be careful about providing their credentials when prompted by an email or phone call, but hackers are getting more creative and tricking users into giving their credentials when users think they’re just signing into their mobile app. For example, BankBot is Android-targeting malware using fake […]
There are more than 5 million apps in the app stores. Most of these apps fit into the gaming, business, education, lifestyle, entertainment, and utility app categories. Some of these apps have access to and contain highly sensitive data and require in-app protection and security to defend against real-time cyberattacks. […]
Mobile devices contain or have access to the same information as traditional endpoints. While billions of dollars have been spent protecting and securing traditional endpoints, very little has been invested to protect mobile device endpoints. Attackers work on the same model as any other business: where do they get the […]
Mobile devices continue to be the target of attack at increasing rates. There is a relatively simple explanation for this – in a typical organization today, 60% of the endpoints containing or accessing enterprise data are mobile; the majority of which do not have any security protection today. It […]
New reports are published every week about privacy and security problems affecting everyday consumers via mobile apps. FaceApp, the mobile app for iOS and Android, uses neural network technology to automatically generate highly realistic transformations of faces in photographs. The app can transform a face to make it smile, look […]
The latest security and privacy hysteria involving apps is “FaceApp” – – which may or may not upload all of your photos to a server owned by a Russian company. The app which ages you (and who doesn’t want to be aged) is all the rage. My son, who is […]
As banks encourage us to move our money to mobile banking apps and cashless formats for convenience and speed, so does the threat of cybercrime. Today, cybercriminals target 63 percent of the banks in our study using specific malware campaigns to trick mobile users into surrendering their money and banking […]
They say it happens in threes. This time, the three are: Flipboard, the social sharing site and news aggregator, reset millions of user passwords after hackers gained access to its systems several times over a nine-month period; Developer platform Stack Overflow earlier this month confirmed a breach involving “a […]