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Secure email app for iOS and Android

AppRiver launched the CipherPost Pro app, which lets companies extend AppRiver’s cloud-based encryption service to any iOS or Android device. CipherPost Pro allows users …

Android malware continues to dominate the mobile threat landscape

F-Secure recently released the latest version of their Mobile Threat Report which covers Q3 2012. This is the executive summary related to Android threats. As expected, …

Secure View 3 recovers deleted data from Android phones

Susteen’s Secure View 3 digital forensics product is now able to recover deleted data from the large majority of Android phones. Law enforcement, military and government …

Secure data-at-rest and data-in-motion on iOS and Android

Companies are moving their core business operations to mobile apps. App developers are at the center of this transformation and must deliver great apps quickly while ensuring …

Most Android malware are SMS Trojans

Android versions 2.3.6, or ‘Gingerbread’, and 4.0.4, also known as ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ were the most popular Android targets among cybercriminals in …

Android 4.2 blocks premium rate messages and verifies third-party apps

Google has recently released its latest Android version, and the first devices to run it – Samsung’s Nexus 10 and LG’s Nexus 4 – will be released a …

Mobile Device Management for iOS and Android devices

CoSoSys released Mobile Device Management (MDM) for iOS and Android as a new module within Endpoint Protector 4.3 including support for iOS 6. “With Mobile Device …

25% of Google Play apps pose a security risk

New research shows that more than 100,000 Android applications in the Google Play store (25 percent) pose a security risk to mobile device users and the enterprise networks to …

Rugged Android device with secure communication

Cummings Engineering, in partnership with Ascent Rugged Mobile, is launching SAIFE Defender, a commercial rugged Android device with secure digital communications. SAIFE …

Privacy-invading module found in thousands of apps on Google Play

An advertising module embedded into over 7,000 “free” fake versions of legitimate Android apps that can be found on Google Play is actively harvesting a ton of …

CyanogenMod found logging Android unlock swipe gestures

CyanogenMod, one of the most popular modified Android firmware on the market, has been found containing code that logs the swipe gestures used by the users to unlock their …

Popular Android apps leaking passwords due to poor SSL

A group of researchers from two German universities claim that eight percent of the 13,500 popular, free-of-charge, legitimate Android Android apps they downloaded from Google …

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