Grand jury investigation targets smartphone privacy
Pandora and possibly other makers of popular smartphone applications are being questioned by a federal grand jury about their privacy practices.
Nancy Gohring | 05 Apr | Read more
Pandora and possibly other makers of popular smartphone applications are being questioned by a federal grand jury about their privacy practices.
Nancy Gohring | 05 Apr | Read more
Twitter is warning users of the popular UberSocial Twitter-messaging software that direct messages they send may not be private.
Robert McMillan | 01 Apr | Read more
There's hacking, then there's hacktivism. There's malware, then there's Android Trojans like the latest "threat" discovered by Symantec. Android.Walkinwat is like the Batman of mobile malware -- a rogue vigilante seeking justice through means that also skirt legality, but for a good cause.
Tony Bradley | 01 Apr | Read more
NetQin Mobile on Friday denied reports that claimed it had deliberately installed viruses on customers' mobile phones along with its antivirus software and then charged customers to remove the malware.
Matt Hamblen | 26 Mar | Read more
Intel will use assets acquired from McAfee to provide cloud security services to protect the growing number of mobile devices that face malware and cyberattack threats.
Saddled with mounting complaints from parents that their kids were running up big iTunes bills Apple changed its app purchasing policies. Now parents, or kids using their parent's iPhone or iPad, will have to re-enter an iTunes password when making a purchase within an existing iOS application (called an in-app purchase).
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 12 Mar | Read more
The CEO of mobile payment service startup Square called accusations that the company was distributing credit-card skimming devices inaccurate and unfair.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 11 Mar | Read more
For only the second time, Google last weekend remotely deleted Android apps from users' phones.
Gregg Keizer | 08 Mar | Read more
The Android world is still reeling from the DroidDream invasion of the Android Market. Google has flipped the kill switch to wipe out apps associated with DroidDream, but the work of investigating how this Android Trojan infiltrated Google, and how to prevent similar attacks in the future is just beginning.
Tony Bradley | 08 Mar | Read more
Research In Motion opened up its beta offering of BlackBerry Protect, a free service that lets users locate their lost phones and remotely wipe them, to users in North America and parts of Latin America.
Nancy Gohring | 08 Mar | Read more
More than 50 applications containing malware have been discovered in Google's application market for its Android mobile OS, a sign that hackers are hard at work trying to compromise mobile devices.
Jeremy Kirk | 03 Mar | Read more
Extreme Networks is going mobile. The company today wheeled out a roadmap that will steer the company's product line toward mobile device and application access, availability and management support.
Tim Greene | 02 Mar | Read more
Sprint Monday debuted a host of smartphone security services as part of its Total Equipment Protection package.
A rogue Android app that's been tweaked by hackers can hijack a smartphone and run up big texting bills before the owner knows it, Symantec said today.
Gregg Keizer | 01 Mar | Read more
While devices such as the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android are in most cases welcomed into the corporate world, there's uncertainty about how to fit them into enterprise IT security practices that have been concerned so long by Microsoft Windows.
Ellen Messmer | 28 Feb | Read more