Articles Tagged with ''security apps''

Banning specific cloud applications is bound to fail. Maintaining a blacklist of cloud applications is ineffective, at best.

As many as 75 percent of mobile apps are “leaky” or insecure, viaForensics research estimates.

As enterprises grow, so does the number of system credentials, leaving users to reuse passwords across multiple accounts.

Mobile shopping is expected to increase dramatically this holiday season – mobile commerce spending on smartphones and tablets in the U.S. increased $5.8 billion in Q3, however, during the same period, mobile malware threats increased 26 percent, making consumers more than more vulnerable to mobile cyber attacks.

Philadelphia was the number one city for smartphone theft in 2012, but its mayor and the Pennsylvania Attorney General are joining the Secure Our Smartphones initiative to pressure manufacturers into adding anti-theft solutions, such as a kill-switch, to new phones. 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is launching a new smartphone app to seek the public's help with fugitive and unknown suspect child predators.

Can you bring a toy lightsaber on a plane? Ask the TSA app! The updated MyTSA app includes a search function, which can tell travelers whether or not an item is allowed on aircraft.

 How many passwords do you have? The average consumer has 35. The problem when you get that number is remembering them, duplicating them or losing them. That’s where the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance comes in. 

The partnership seeks to overcome the major weakness of password-authentication to send data over the cloud, which is stopping many sensitive organizations from using the service.