Guest Post – Mobile App Security Threats and Secure Best Practices Part 2

A guest post by KC Karnes

Mobile App Security Exploit Examples: Painful Real-life Lessons

The climate around mobile app security is heating up.

Mobile app vulnerabilities are exploited every day, resulting in expensive data breaches and loss of public trust.

In this section, we will try to learn from the failures of other companies and highlight how real the threats outlined above can be.

Timehop Fails To Trust Two-Factor Authentication

Starting in December of 2017, TimeHop ...

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MAY
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Android, Apple, cybersecurity, smartphones, social engineering, Software vulnerability

Guest Post – Mobile App Security Threats and Secure Best Practices Part 1

A guest post by KC Karnes

Is your mobile app secure?

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that mobile apps are targeted by hackers, given the rapid adoption and increased usage globally. By some estimates, one out of every 36 mobile devices has high-risk apps installed.1

An even more sobering mobile app security statistic for businesses to hear: 71% of fraud transactions came from mobile apps and mobile browsers in ...

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MAY
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cybersecurity, smartphones, social engineering, Software vulnerability

Guest Post – Cybercriminals Like Going Mobile Too

It’s something that we hear a lot about – mobile devices have become an integral part of our society. Can you remember the last time that you switched your phone off for the weekend? Can you even imagine not having your phone with you all the time? If you’re like most people, the idea is ludicrous. We keep everything on our phones.

It’s convenient for us – you don’t have to ...

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APR
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Android, Apple, Security, smartphones

Smartphone Malware Exploits On The Rise

Lately there have been a spate of incidents involving smartphone apps for the iPhone and Android phones that were discovered to be malicious in various ways.  The important commonality in these revelations was that cyber-criminals had actually modified legitimate apps by hijacking several developer’s credentials, including their “Developer Certificate.”  The developer key provides a digital signature that validates the app as being ...

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FEB
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Android, Apple, cybersecurity, malware, smartphones, Spyware, Trojan

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Better Two-Factor Security from Google Titan

This article is an amusing collision between our last two topics – the problems with two-factor and multi-factor authentication and our four-part story on Google’s data mining habits.  Google has developed and released their Titan MFA security key as a more secure way to implement multi-factor authentication that can’t be attacked through phishing and man-in-the-middle exploits.  So if you can ...

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NOV
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authentication, Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, passwords, Security, smartphones

Hiding from the Biggest Spy on the Internet – Part 4

In our last three posts, we dissected the data collection program on one of the biggest Internet companies, the King of the Internet, Google.  Today we are going to provide you with a small set of options you can use to reduce and sometimes eliminate your exposure to data collection, and increase your privacy while online.  These solutions will work well not just against Google, but also against the data ...

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NOV
0

Android, Computers and Internet, crypto-currency, smartphones, surveillance

The Biggest Spy on the Internet – Part 3

Now that I know everything about you, maybe I can predict what you are likely to do in the future.  In the first two parts of this report, we looked at Google and the many products and services that collect information about you, and just what kind of details are included in that informational trove.  Today we will see what that information can do.

Whether you call it bots, AI (artificial ...

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NOV
0

Android, artificial intellegence, Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, smartphones, surveillance

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