Mobile Security
Mobile Security
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Is Your Company’s Mobile App Putting Your Customers At Risk For Fraud?
Mobile apps are becoming big business for businesses. Many bank customers now check their account balances or transfer funds through an app on their cell phones. Savvy retail shoppers can use a favorite store’s apps to learn about discounts, access coupons and find daily deals. “The apps for financial institutions and retailers are getting greater … Read More
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2015: The Year of mCrime
The following is a guest contributed post from Mark Laich, VP of Security Solutions, SnoopWall, Inc. Millions of consumers no longer visit a bank to deposit checks or conduct financial transactions. Instead they rely on the convenience of using their mobile devices to send money, view account balances and bank online. The same is true … Read More
By Michael -
New Coupling Makes it Easier for Enterprises to Deploy Employee Mobility Programs
Syntonic, a connected services provider, came to Barcelona this week to announce a solution for Samsung KNOX. The goal? To “make it easier for enterprises to manage employees’ use of mobile devices and business applications,” which benefits BYOD and COPE programs. Syntonic made the announcement on the first day of Mobile World Congress 2015, where … Read More
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What’s Up? Mobile Spam on WhatsApp
The unnerving trend of mobile spam proliferation has found its way to WhatsApp in no short supply. The latest research from AdaptiveMobile shows an alarming rate of spam targeting the hugely popular mobile messaging platform, particularly across Europe and India. In effect, the spam explosion comes as the latest evidence of spammers moving away from … Read More
By Michael -
Globo Solo No More: Integration with Cisco ISE Announced
Globo Plc, a worldwide provider of enterprise mobility solutions and Software-as-a-Service, announced ahead of the weekend integration with Cisco Identity Services Engine — or ISE. Cisco ISE is a security policy management platform that unifies and automates secure access control to “enforce role-based access to networks and network resources; which in turn enables a simplified … Read More
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In Your Face: USAA Brings Biometric Logon to Mobile Users
USAA says it is poised to become the first U.S. financial institution to protect member security through facial and voice recognition on a mobile app. This quarter, USAA members will be able to log into their accounts through mobile devices using biometric recognition. “This will make USAA the first U.S. financial institution to offer facial … Read More
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau and the FBI Join Forces to Combat Malware
Malware is software built for one reason and one reason only—to disrupt or damage your computer systems. This is why it is important not to click on suspicious links, or to download software or any other material with which you are unfamiliar. Pretty straight-forward, universal knowledge, right? Not really. Read More
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Is Programmatic Mobile Advertising More Fraud-Resistant?
What’s bugging digital advertisers? According to Victor Malachard, whose commentary on the topic appeared at Fourth Source, it’s fraud. Among the concerns “for all players in the digital advertising ecosystem, and quite rightly, too, is fraud, in which non-human clicks and impressions drain advertising budgets rather than reaching the right audiences,” Malachard writes. Read More
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Target Aims to Dominate Holiday Marketing, Shopping, and Sales
The increasingly savvy mobile marketing and digital advertising gurus at Target believe they have put the retail giant on pace to have a monster holiday shopping season. At least one thing is for sure. 2014 will be better than 2013 for Target. How could it not? Last year, Target had some serious trouble with the … Read More
By Michael -
Marketing Mission Impossible: Last Year’s Hacked Stores Unlikely to Recover This Year
If you haven’t already begun receiving messages in your smartphone or in your inbox about the “unprecedented security” of shopping online and in store with your favorite retailer this holiday season, you soon will. According to sources connected to major retailers including Target, a marketing blitz not only for holiday shopping but for holiday shopping … Read More
By Michael
