Articles Tagged with ''mobile device security''

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.

For enterprises working with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs, managing data on employees’ devices can be challenging.

When we travel, the data we carry and our Internet habits can put our individual privacy and data security at risk.

As the number of cyber attacks increase, the cost, frequency and time to resolve them increases as well. Conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by HP Enterprise Security Products, the 2013 Cost of Cyber Crime Study found that the average annualized cost of cybercrime incurred by a benchmark sample of U.S. organizations was $11.56 million, representing a 78-percent increase since the initial study was conducted four years ago.

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.