Category: Mobile Security

July 15, 2019

The growth of digital government services and Internet-connected devices scattered across urban landscapes is giving city officials access to ever-increasing amounts of data on their constituents. But while that data can be used to drive policy decisions, cities must first […]

July 3, 2019

The OpenID Foundation, the organization behind the OpenID open standard and decentralized authentication protocol, has penned an open letter to Apple in regards to the company’s recently announced “Sign In with Apple” feature. In its letter, the organization said that […]

May 14, 2019

Attackers have been exploiting a vulnerability in WhatsApp that allowed them to infect phones with advanced spyware made by Israeli developer NSO Group, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing the company and a spyware technology dealer. A representative of […]

May 2, 2019

It’s long been known that China is developing a dystopian surveillance system in Xinjiang, the Northwest province that’s home to China’s Uyghur Muslim population. Among the evidence includes poorly managed database and now we have details of a mobile app […]

April 29, 2019

Apple is defending its removal of certain parental control apps from the app store in a new statement. The company has come under fire for its removal of certain apps that were pitched as tools giving parents more control over […]

April 12, 2019

Apple has added another step to prevent users from accidentally signing up for an iOS app’s subscription – or, from being tricked into it by a scammy app not playing by the rules. The company recently rolled out a subscription […]

April 3, 2019

Phishing and fake emails are the biggest security headache for business and among the hardest to tackle. According the 2019 Cyber Security Breaches Survey published by the UK government, the most common type of cyber attacks are phishing attacks, whether […]

April 1, 2019

Google’s Android, now 10 years old, has not been a stranger to security issues over the years. But with the mobile operating system now installed on over 2 billion devices globally, Google has been taking an increasingly firmer grip on […]

March 29, 2019

The past couple of years have marked some steep ups and downs for Huawei. Just this morning, the company posted a 25 percent raise in profit to $8.84 billion in 2018. Yesterday, on the other hand, a UK oversight body […]

March 21, 2019

Microsoft’s enterprise security platform Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) can now protect macOS devices in addition to Windows 10 ones, Microsoft announced today. To reflect its coverage of non-Windows operating systems, Microsoft has also decided to rename its next-gen […]