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Article | 28/01/2013 WhatsApp could face prosecution on poor privacy
A yearlong investigation by government privacy watchdogs in Canada and the Netherlands identified major weaknesses in the way the WhatsApp cellphone m...
Article | 28/01/2013 Privacy messaging tool Wickr adds Dropbox integration
Wickr, a mobile messaging application that electronically shreds communications, has added the ability to send documents from Dropbox, leave video mes...
Article | 24/01/2013 Fujitsu eyes enterprise security with HTML5 app platform
Engineers at Fujitsu Laboratories are developing an HTML 5-based platform for smartphones that designed to keep corporate data secure when accessed fr...
Article | 20/12/2012 FCC issues security guidance to smartphone users
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is advising smartphone users on how to protect their mobile devices and data from mobile security threats.
Article | 20/12/2012 Samsung promises fix for vulnerability in Android devices
Samsung said Wednesday it is working on an update for a software flaw that could allow attackers to siphon personal data from a phone.
Article | 19/12/2012 Trend Micro updates security app to detect Samsung attacks
Trend Micro has updated its mobile security software to detect potential attacks on several Samsung Electronics devices that have a flaw that could al...
Article | 14/12/2012 SMS stealing apps uploaded to Google Play by Carberp banking malware gang
Several malicious Android apps designed to steal mobile transaction authentication numbers (mTANs) sent by banks to their customers over SMS (Short Me...
Article | 11/12/2012 CIA's venture arm backs mobile banking, NFC developer
In-Q-Tel, the technology investment arm of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will invest in Tyfone, a small developer of mobile banking, ide...
Article | 4/12/2012 Twitter fixes SMS-based account hijacking vulnerability
Twitter has restricted the ability of attackers to post tweets and perform other actions on behalf of many users who have phone numbers associated wit...
Article | 4/12/2012 Orange to install Lookout security software on Android devices
Mobile network operator Orange will install Lookout's Mobile Security application on some of the Android-based tablets and smartphones it distributes ...
Article | 13/11/2012 Researcher to present Windows Phone 8 malware at MalCon
A 16-year-old security researcher from India plans to present a malware application for Windows Phone 8 at the upcoming MalCon security conference in ...
Article | 13/11/2012 OpenDNS introduces VPN, content filtering for mobile devices
OpenDNS, a company that specializes in secure Domain Name System lookups, has released a suite of security services built around its core DNS product ...
Article | 6/11/2012 Hundreds of Google Play apps create spoofed messages in users' SMS inboxes, Symantec says
About 200 Android applications currently hosted on Google Play create spoofed SMS messages on the devices they are installed on, according to security...
Article | 23/10/2012 CyanogenMod developers remove code that logged device screen-lock patterns
The development team of CyanogenMod, a popular community-built Android firmware, discovered and removed a line of code that posed potential security r...
Article | 19/10/2012 Many Android apps from Google Play security-challenged
Hundreds of free apps in the Android market vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks as a result of unsound use of secure socket layer (SSL)