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While mobile devices continue to fight an inaccurate perception that they're not as secure as traditional PCs, Entrust Inc., a provider of identity-based security solutions, believes that mobile devices, when properly managed and protected, can be a ...

Shared accounts? #FacebookIsBetter Security-watchers don't appear overly impressed with Twitter's introduction of two-factor authentication (2FA) to its service. While some infosec experts welcomed the move, others argued that while it might help ...

M obile and NFC payment technologies have been on the rise in recent years. But with many merchants and retail outlets still reluc- tant to invest in the new technologies, and with the rise of fraud in existing solutions, industry participants are ...

The Android threat landscape is starting to resemble that of Windows, F-Secure researchers say The Android threat landscape is growing in both size and complexity with cybercriminals adopting new distribution methods and building Android-focused ...

By Given the growth in popularity of smartphones over the last decade, the rise of mobile malware seems inevitable. Malware always rises where there is a popular platform, a range of attack vectors and some means of monetization, and mobile devices ...

Mobile marketing networks are getting good at geo-fencing for advertisers, but they need to get better at fencing out bogus ad traffic perpetrated by robotic programs. Computer hackers are intensifying their infiltration of mobile ad networks, ...

Dataquest Starting out as simple denial of service assaults launched from a single computer, DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks have evolved-with the proliferation of botnets-into one of the biggest threats on the security ...

Simphiwe Mayisela Simphiwe Mayisela, CISSP, CISM, TOGAF, SCF, founder and president of (ISC)2 Gauteng Chapter is an information security manager at Sun International. What do you see as the single biggest information security risk this year? The ...

One of the most insidious cyber threats for security community is represented by diffusion of botnets, networks of infected computers (bots or zombies) managed by attackers due the inoculation of malware. The controller of a botnet, also known as ...