Mobile Security

Who can ever forget of Avaya phones and its near-monopoly of the corporate communication equipment market for Fortune 100 companies pre-Skype? As software VOIP solutions matured, companies are slowly but surely migrating away from hardware-based VOIP phones, including Avaya. For the last 10 years that Avaya ruled the offices, it harbored a remote code execution

“Security patch” is a term that refers to programs and data that fix known vulnerability in the software. Vulnerabilities are weaknesses, software bugs which can be “weaponized” in order to compromise the security and privacy of users. How many times we have witnessed in the mobile space, more particularly on Android having many unpatched defects,

Android 6.0 Marshmallow (and later) is hailed for giving its default user the capability to grant/deny granularly the permissions asked by apps, something that only rooted/custom roms users were able to do prior. However, contrary to the permissions feature, a study conducted by the University of Calgary, U.C. Berkeley, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and

Nowadays, mobile security ranks high on the list of concerns for all companies, and this is for good reason: now almost all workers access company data from smartphones on a regular basis. It means that keeping sensitive information safe is an increasingly complex puzzle. The stakes are higher than ever: The average cost of a

Smartphones and other mobile devices such as tablets and smartwatches are fast becoming more “personal computers” than the PC. People interact with these devices and store more personally identifiable information in them more than any laptop or desktop computer. In today’s technology-driven world, even the first thing to do after waking-up is checking the notification

The average person in the world today keeps a ton of “stuff” on their smartphone. Gone are the days when making a call was the only thing you could do—now there’s basically nothing you can’t do on your mobile device—aside from keeping it completely safe, that is. Emailing, banking, shopping, it’s all right there at

Android has been on the market since 2008, and this year 2018 marks a decade of dominance in the world of mobile platforms. As part of being dominant in the mobile computing market comes the reciprocal risk of being targeted by cybercriminals. Android, due to its open platform nature enables users the capability to install

Most people these days are using smartphones and tablets to research information on various products or services, and organizations who want to stay ahead in business can afford to miss this trend. Further, enterprises who fail to keep up with cybersecurity’s best practices in the mobile environment will likely experience more than a headache—it could

People nowadays spend more time on their mobile devices than ever before. From social media to email to phone calls, the world is addicted to the functionality of these machines, which is precisely why more and more devices are being targeted by malware, ransomware, and other issues. Computer Security Solutions providers like Sophos are now