Wickr sees a business in securing other apps
Wickr, a startup that provides encrypted messaging, is now licensing its security technology to other application vendors.
Zach Miners | 19 Mar | Read more
Wickr, a startup that provides encrypted messaging, is now licensing its security technology to other application vendors.
Zach Miners | 19 Mar | Read more
A researcher has discovered a weakness in iOS 7 that would enable an attacker to bypass a number of mechanisms Apple uses to prevent exploitation of the operating system's kernel.
Antone Gonsalves | 14 Mar | Read more
Fraunhofer Institute researchers are working to speed up the scanning of mobile app code for security flaws, aiming to offer developers in a few milliseconds the kind of analysis that once required an all-night scan of code.
Peter Sayer | 10 Mar | Read more
A security vendor has uncovered an iOS vulnerability that an attacker could use to run a monitoring app on Apple devices and record all touches on their screens.
Antone Gonsalves | 26 Feb | Read more
Security researchers identified a vulnerability in iOS that allows apps to record all touch screen and button presses while running in the background on non-jailbroken devices.
Lucian Constantin | 25 Feb | Read more
The number of mobile apps infected with malware in Google's Play store nearly quadrupled between 2011 and 2013, a security group has reported.
Zach Miners | 19 Feb | Read more
Dutch telecom operator KPN has struck a deal with encrypted communications provider Silent Circle to start offering its Dutch, German and Belgian customers encrypted phone calls and text messages.
Loek Essers | 19 Feb | Read more
A team of researchers has developed an Android app to help people better understand when their location is being accessed, something that happens more often than people think.
Zach Miners | 31 Jan | Read more
Snapchat has incorporated a phone number opt-out feature into its mobile app in response to a recent hacking incident -- the company's latest effort to convince users that their personal information is safe.
Zach Miners | 09 Jan | Read more
The evad3rs hacking team has released a long-awaited jailbreak for Apple devices running iOS 7, but the release generated a backlash over its bundling of a Chinese app store instead of the more popular Cydia app directory.
Lucian Constantin | 23 Dec | Read more
Apple is taking a closer look at shoppers in its retail stores, under a new program that will push product-related information to their mobile devices using its iBeacon trackers.
Zach Miners | 06 Dec | Read more
Security researchers have compromised Microsoft Surface RT, Nexus 4 and Samsung Galaxy S4 devices by exploiting previously unknown vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 11 running on Windows 8.1 and Google Chrome running on Android.
Lucian Constantin | 14 Nov | Read more
With Android 4.4 KitKat, Google has an opportunity to show that when it comes to security, the next version of the mobile operating system is ready for business. While we don't know whether Google will take up the challenge, security experts provided Wednesday their wish lists of enterprise-pleasing features.
Antone Gonsalves | 31 Oct | Read more
Mocana will soon allow companies to wrap iOS 7 apps in a layer of security software designed to insulate enterprise data from hackers who are becoming increasingly interested in smartphones.
Mikael Ricknäs | 03 Oct | Read more
Apple's Touch ID authentication system can be defeated using a well-honed technique for creating a latex copy of someone's fingerprint, according to a German hacking group.
Jeremy Kirk | 23 Sep | Read more