First multiTEE security platform for mobile app developers emerges
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 by Austin Harris
Trustonic says it will expand support to include Huawei’s Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) on its mobile application security platform, Trustonic Application Protection (TAP). Until now, TAP has enabled app developers to build apps secured by both strong application shielding for iOS and Android, and hardware-based protection for the 1.7 billion Android devices...
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Friday, December 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
In 2016, a record 3 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked, and Uber reported that hackers stole the information of over 57 million accounts. Then in 2017, 412 million user accounts were taken from Friendfinder’s sites, and 147.9 million consumers were affected by the Equifax Breach. In 2018, Under Armor said that that it's My Fitness Pal app was hacked, affecting...
5 app development tips to help you avoid disaster
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 by Joe Hanson
Mobile app development: it’s easy and straightforward in the lab, but once your app is deployed to the wild, all bets are off. You need to deliver seamless, fast experiences for users on low-powered devices, in any number of network environments.
When it comes to building mobile apps, uncontrollable user behavior can lead you down the path to death by 1000 pape...
30,000 blacklisted apps hosted on the Google Play Store report finds
Friday, September 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
RiskIQ has released its Mobile Threat Landscape Q2 2018 Report, which analyzed 120 mobile app stores and more than two billion daily scanned resources. The findings show a spike in blacklisted apps headlined by Trojans and Adware, as well as a fascinating shift in tactics by mobile threat actors.
For the second year in a row, RiskIQ observed a sharp increase in black...
Fortnite for Android is a trailblazing risk for mobile banking
Tuesday, August 14, 2018 by Sam Bakken
CEO Tim Sweeny of Epic Games, the publisher of the wildly popular Fortnite game, is on a mission to “advance the openness of all platforms” - not to mention side-step Google’s 30% take of developer proceeds - by distributing Fortnite for the Android platform via their website rather than the Google Play store. I applaud a maverick challenging the statu...
Detect eavesdropping in your mobile app with TrustKit
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 by Austin Harris
Data Theorem, Inc. announced the availability of TrustKit Analytics, a new service for the TrustKit community that delivers advanced security insights. In addition, the company announced that since TrustKit’s release in 2015, it has identified more than 100 million eavesdropping attempts on iOS and Android applications, where apps in active mode have blocked 100 p...
Mobile Threat Landscape reports steady decrease in blacklisted apps
Friday, June 1, 2018 by Austin Harris
RiskIQ has released its Mobile Threat Landscape Q1 2018 Report, which analyzed 120 mobile app stores and more than two billion daily scanned resources. The findings showed that taking advantage of the popularity and volatility of the cryptocurrency landscape is paying off for threat actors via the mobile attack vector and that malicious apps leveraged by nation-state ac...
Apperian announces new security capabilities
Monday, July 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
Apperian, an Arxan company and provider of mobile application management (MAM) and security solutions, has announced several platform enhancements, which increase the security of enterprise mobile app data. These updates take advantage of native device capabilities, multiple industry protocols and additional password controls, to provide a solution for distributing secu...
Enterprise threat dubbed HospitalGown infests thousands of apps
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
Appthority, an enterprise mobile threat protection company, published research on a newly discovered backend data exposure vulnerability, dubbed HospitalGown, that highlights the connection between mobile apps and insecure backend databases containing enterprise data. Appthority documented more than 1,000 apps with this vulnerability, and researched in detail 39 applica...
CA Identity Suite now includes integration with CA Privileged Access Manager
Thursday, December 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
CA Technologies has announced a new release of CA Identity Suite that includes integration with CA Privileged Access Manager for governance of privileged accounts and new, flexible deployment options for agility, speed and ease-of-use in identity management and access governance helping to save time and save money. Privileged User Governance Helps Mitigate Insider ...
Enterprise Mobile Threat Update for Q3 2016 Arrives
Thursday, August 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
Appthority has released it Enterprise Mobile Threat Update for Q3 2016, which provides insight into the mobile threat landscape over the last quarter.Appthority’s Enterprise Mobile Threat Team monitors and researches the latest mobile risks that are direct threats to the enterprise. The data is compiled into the quarterly Enterprise Mobile Threat Update, aimed at provid...
AdaptiveMobile Adds SS7 Cat 3 Detection Capabilities to Mobile Threat Intelligence Platform
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
AdaptiveMobile has announced advanced SS7 “Cat 3” Signalling Protection detection capabilities to its Mobile Threat Intelligence Platform including Network Memory, Location Plausibility, and Remote Intercept. The Company’s advanced threat detection is based on continuous data and analysis with all rules validated with information from across five continents. Adapt...
Don't Expect Apple and Google to Do App Security for You
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 by Sinan Eren
The appetite for mobile apps with an appealing user experience shows no signs of slowing – even in closely regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. In fact, according to Gartner, by the end of 2017, IT organizations will be hard-pressed to meet market demand for mobile app development services as it grows at least five times faster than IT’s abili...
Security Brief Protecting Against the OWASP Mobile Top 10
Thursday, January 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
There are over 1.6 million Android apps in the Google Play store. Over 1.5 million apps are in the Apple App Store. For mobile app hackers, today’s mobile environment has never offered a more fertile landscape to phish for user information or implant mobile malware. And never in history has more information been available to exploit.To understand how mobile application ...
Android Gets Enterprise Security With LookoutSamsung Alliance
Thursday, September 5, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Lookout is increasing its footprint in enterprise mobility with a new partnership with Samsung and a soon to be released standalone business product. Lookout has announced it will provide integrated support to the Samsung Knox, an Android-based end-to-end mobile security solution that provides security hardening from the hardware through to the application layer.
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