As the mobile malware epidemic has raged on the Android platform, people on iOS have been relatively safe. There are many reasons why this is the case, but one of the chief reasons is that Apple has claimed that they keep their “walled garden” safe meaning that they keep malicious code and malware from entering…
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Financially motivated cybercriminals are expert analysts of emerging tech trends. They’re often the first to spot and adapt to changing patterns of device usage, web browsing, and other key identifiers of our ever-evolving relationship with technology. Once it’s guaranteed that there’ll be a captive user base to make money from, the bad guys turn their…
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If you’ve been hiding on Mars for the past week, you might have missed that Apple has just launched its latest iPhone. Perhaps lacking some of the gee-whizz-bang features of previous major releases, the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus nevertheless contain enough to keep die-hard fans happy. Smartphone design has come a long way in…
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Once upon a time, the back-to-school weeks used to involve parents buying their children new shirts, pants, and shoes for the year ahead. But times have changed. Today, it’s more likely anxious moms and dads are investing significantly more of their hard earned dollars into laptops, smartphones, and tablets for their little ones. But while…
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In the crush of news about the Hacking Team attacks and the subsequent flurry of vulnerabilities, mainly affecting Adobe, there was one piece of critical information for Android users that many have overlooked. Among the tricks and tools that we’ve discovered the Hacking Team has at their disposal is a particularly nasty piece of Android…
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New Versions of Trend Micro Mobile Security Now Available Unless you’ve been hibernating for a few years, you probably know that the Internet Age has quickly evolved into the Mobile Internet Age (MIA). Now-a-days, it seems everyone is maintaining an MIA lifestyle using at least one smartphone and probably a tablet, too, to get online. …
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Security researchers are reporting new, serious vulnerabilities that, they claim, affect 95 percent of the Android phones out there. If that’s not alarming enough, according to the researchers, these vulnerabilities allow attackers to take complete control of your phone with zero interaction—you just need to receive a specially-made multimedia message (MMS). They’re calling this cluster…
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There’s another vulnerability affecting the Android platform that this week once again raises the question: am I vulnerable? Researchers from NowSecure announced at Black Hat in London this week a vulnerability affecting the SwiftKey keyboard on Android. The biggest concern is for Samsung Galaxy phones which install the SwiftKey keyboard by default and allow it…
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…And What to Do Before You Get Rid of It It’s time to spring clean! If you’re like me, you hate to toss a piece of hardware into the garbage. Happily, over the past couple of decades the reuse-recycle-repurpose trend has taken hold and expanded in our society. There are many ways to avoid just…
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