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 was ...

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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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cybersecurity, smartphones, social engineering, Software vulnerability

Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity

Original release date: April 10, 2019

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have identified a Trojan malware variant—referred to as HOPLIGHT—used by the North Korean government. The U.S. Government refers to malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government as HIDDEN COBRA.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...

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Guest Post – The Ultimate Online Privacy Guide Part 3

Privacy has taken a huge hit since the introduction of the Internet.  Google and Facebook are data mining our lives for information they can sell to advertisers and marketers.  Our own government spies on us illegally without stop.  Our information is stored on websites, and scoped up in huge data breaches, ending up in the hands of cyber-criminal gangs.  What can we do about it?  Today we publish the second ...

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Guest Post – The Ultimate Online Privacy Guide Part 2

Privacy has taken a huge hit since the introduction of the Internet.  Google and Facebook are data mining our lives for information they can sell to advertisers and marketers.  Our own government spies on us illegally without stop.  Our information is stored on websites, and scoped up in huge data breaches, ending up in the hands of cyber-criminal gangs.  What can we do about it?  Today we publish the second ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, privacy

Guest Post – The Ultimate Online Privacy Guide Part 1

Privacy has taken a huge hit since the introduction of the Internet.  Google and Facebook are data mining our lives for information they can sell to advertisers and marketers.  Our own government spies on us illegally without stop.  Our information is stored on websites, and scooped up in huge data breaches, ending up in the hands of cyber-criminal gangs.  What can we do about it?  Today we open a three ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, privacy

Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Hacked tornado warning systems leave Texans in the dark

Add this latest public warning system sabotage to a growing list of fear-and-panic-spreading hacking incidents.

You left WHAT on that USB drive?!

Nudies, taxes, and memos – oh, my! Research shows that even if we think we’ve deleted content on the sticks, we’re leaving ...

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Android, Internet of Things, Trojan, Web Design, Weekend Update, WordPress

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