A study of over 100,000 applications in Google Play (formerly Android market) has found that more than half contained ad libraries with nearly 300 of which able to grab code from remote servers that could potentially give malware writers and hackers a away into your smart phone or tablet.
Samsung has been crowned the most popular smartphone producer in China according to analysts at research firm Gartner. The Korean manufacturer beat others such as Nokia, Huawei, ZTE and Apple to clinch the title and now boasts an impressive 24.3% market share in China.
Meanwhile, while Apple's iPhone 4S is apparently the most desired handset in China, it's limited availability with carriers has played its part in Samsung's achievement.
The Honey Stick Project (HSP) is a research project created by Security Perspectives Inc. It's designed to measure the decisions of real people and simulate threats and risks to information in a mobile environment. The original purpose of the HSP was to determine the percentage of people who do not realize that it can be very dangerous to insert unknown devices into their computer systems, and who take potentially risky actions when forced to make those kinds of decisions.
Seattle-based startup Mobilisafe is still in stealth mode, but the company recently peeked out to talk, in general terms, about how it addresses IT challenges stemming from the bring your own device (BYOD) trend.
Last November, Mobilisafe launched a private beta of its as yet unnamed mobile risk management product, which analyzes mobile devices that are connecting to a company's network. Gathering user data in the intervening months has enabled Mobilisafe to identify BYOD usage trends it deems relevant to SMBs.
Apple, Google and other mobile platform providers will present privacy policies for all the apps offered in their stores as part of an agreement with the state of California.
The number of employee-owned mobile devices used on corporate networks continues its inexorable rise despite yawning and known gaps in security, a Check Point survey has found.
The questioning of 768 IT executives in the US, UK, Canada, Germany and Japan for The Impact of Mobile Devices on Information Security found that two thirds allow the use of personal mobile devices while at work, a marked increase on two years ago.
Researchers have revealed a new type of spam campaign that appears to be a test run to find out how mobile users will respond to social engineering attempts on their smartphones and tablets.
According to a Tuesday blog post from security firm Websense, the emails look like typical spam trying to hawk male enhancement drugs. However, in this case, they contain a link to a legitimate site -- 2tag.nl -- that generates quick response (QR) codes for URLs.
F-Secure has released its latest version Mobile Security 7.5, a security offering for mobile devices to provide improved security and parental control capabilities on Android devices to meet the mobile security concerns with young people using smartphones.
F-Secure's anti-virus technologies will be complemented with new cloud-based services that provide immediate information on whether a mobile application is considered safe to install which provides comprehensive protection against spying programs and the full range of other mobile threats.
Oracle published survey results today showing user perceptions of their security when using a smartphone.
The paper, "Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications – Take Two", provided some interesting results, mainly that smartphone users have a healthy skepticism about the security of these devices.
