Articles Tagged with ''smartphone security''

Apple Inc. has finally joined the NFC bandwagon with its own proprietary payment system: Apple Pay. 

The Android OS-based phone offers 16GB of storage, and it features a 5-megapixel front camera and sensors for gravity, light, proximity and GPS.

The youngest households are abandoning landlines in droves. About two-thirds of households led by people ages 15 to 29 relied only on cellphones in 2011, compared with 28 percent for the broader population.

The solution is designed to fine-tune data access and delivery, reducing business risk without hampering employee productivity.

Banning specific cloud applications is bound to fail. Maintaining a blacklist of cloud applications is ineffective, at best.

The mobile malware “zoo” totaled 3.73 million samples at the end of the year. According to McAfee Labs Threats Report, Fourth Quarter 2013, malware can arrive on a mobile device through just about every attack vector, such as downloaded apps, malicious website, spam, malicious SMS messages, and malware-bearing advertisements.

BlackBerry plans to open a new security center in Washington, D.C., to improve mobile security. While speaking at the CES Government event in Las Vegas, BlackBerry CEO John Chen said that the new “Security Innovation Center ... will serve as a hub for collaboration with key government customers and other expert partners,” ZDNet reports.

Mobile shopping is expected to increase dramatically this holiday season – mobile commerce spending on smartphones and tablets in the U.S. increased $5.8 billion in Q3, however, during the same period, mobile malware threats increased 26 percent, making consumers more than more vulnerable to mobile cyber attacks.