While we wait for the final judgment on the privacy implications of the <a href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/1843/lesson_of_the_carrier_iq_firestorm_vendors_must_change_their_ways">Carrier IQ fiasco</a>, security pros are asking what the potential security implications of the embattled mobile diagnostic software could be.
George V. Hulme | 08 Dec | Read more
According to industry analysts, mobile device shipments will exceed a billion devices in 2015 and will rapidly outrun PC shipments. That's great news for end user convenience, mobility, and work-anywhere productivity. But it also means that enterprises must brace for the fact that the <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/690905/iphone-and-ipad-security-the-human-element">bad guys will target these devices</a> with attack exploits, spyware, and rogue applications.
George V. Hulme | 06 Oct | Read more
As smartphones increasingly hold interesting data, <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/686655/social-engineering-3-mobile-malware-techniques">attackers will target the devices using known vulnerabilities</a> in common software packages.
Robert Lemos | 27 Jul | Read more
Code that exploits two iPhone flaws to allow people to jailbreak their devices could, ironically, force security-conscious users to use the vulnerabilities to jailbreak their own iPhones and apply a third-party patch.
Robert Lemos | 09 Jul | Read more
There's no doubt that the momentum in computing adoption is with mobile meaning enterprises will have to protect the communications that emanate from, and are sent to, these devices.
George V. Hulme | 16 Mar | Read more
The malicious code that led Google to remove more than 50 Trojan applications from the Android Marketplace appears to mainly be a "dropper" -- a program designed to load other code to further compromise the affected smartphone, according to a security firm's analysis.
Robert Lemos | 09 Mar | Read more