Lookout Mobile Security has created a paid client application that makes use of the vendor's cloud-based service to secure Android smartphones. Lookout Premium adds new features for greater privacy, remote lock, remote wipe, and enhances its cloud-based backup-and-restore capability.
A database security vendor says colleges and universities need to do more to secure their databases against break-ins.
The annual report from Georgia Tech Information Security Center identifies five evolving cyber security threats, and the news is not good.
New software from AirDefense is designed to protect a widely used but flawed wireless LAN encryption protocol.
The world's first large-scale 802.11n wireless LAN is now operational. And students using the network at the small, rural New York state college where the wireless technology is deployed say they see a dramatic difference in what they can do with it, along with a more reliable WLAN connection.
Carnegie Mellon University has launched a massive upgrade of its campus-wide wireless LAN and chosen two WLAN vendors to supply the 802.11n infrastructure for it.
A group of university computer scientists are launching a research project to better protect data stored in radio-based smart tags.
A team of IT staffers at the University of Indianapolis last week showed off a bundle of open-source tools and scripts it uses to trap and isolate PCs infected by viruses or spyware.
The starry-eyed have given way to the hard-eyed at this year's Wireless Sensing Solutions Conference.
More details are emerging about what may be the first mobile phone worm.
During the past year, wireless LAN security threats have multiplied, according to users, vendors and consultants.