Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:25:17 +0000
Remember the FaceTime bug that allowed a caller to eavesdrop on your phone? Researchers just discovered another – this time in Signal.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/kuYuPSST8YI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:41:15 +0000
Android smartphones are vulnerable to a zero-day exploit that Google thought it had patched for good two years ago.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9TX4gOYOCsQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:31:00 -0700
The internet of things (IoT) brings with it a wide range of IT security headaches, along with compliance nightmares — and turf wars.
Internal problem No. 1: Departments that typically have little to no interactions with IT are now directly ordering corporate IoT devices. Maybe you’ve got Facilities purchasing IoT door locks or Maintenance buying a ton of IoT light bulbs. Given that those departments have been purchasing door locks and light bulbs for as long as anyone can remember and have never needed IT or security’s signoff, this can be a problem.
Internal problem No. 2: In many ways, IoT devices (think of devices for tracking pallets on ships or for monitoring where every fleet car is and how fast it’s been driven) are very different from anything else that IT or security has dealt with. The units are capturing data that has never been tracked before — Hello, Compliance. Go away, GDPR regulator — and in different ways, such as bypassing enterprise LANs and cloud networks and using internal antennas to directly communicate.
Credit to Author: Jack Gold| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:22:00 -0700
We love our smartphones, but there's a dark side. Their prevalence and users’ tendencies to connect over public Wi-Fi make mobile devices a common target of bad guys. Analyst Jack Gold looks at how to mitigate the risk.
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:07:47 +0000
As promised in April, Cloudflare has finally launched Warp, a consumer mobile privacy app that looks a lot like a VPN without actually being one.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/IXc1HLdLZ1Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:57:37 +0000
People are taking different tacks to get around Apple’s tightly controlled phone rules.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/wSp7NxeUhpU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 13:16:56 +0000
SophosLabs researchers discovered at least 15 apps with millions of downloads charging extraordinary prices right under the Google’s nose.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/H5gANUVkXYM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:56:00 -0700
Apple may place much of its focus on Apple Arcade and consumer-friendly iPad/iPhone features, but there are numerous enterprise-focused enhancements wrapped up inside iOS 13.
The company’s latest operating systems introduce a host of productivity-enhancing upgrades, particularly for the iPad.
Yet the biggest improvements specifically for enterprise users aim to make a more robust division between personal and enterprise data for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) deployments, solving one of the big challenges in the space.
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 05:29:00 -0700
If you’ve (successfully) upgraded to iOS 13 or just got hold of a new iPhone 11 or 11 Pro, there are new security settings in Apple’s latest operating system you need to learn and use. Here’s what’s important to understand.
There were 26.3 billion robocalls in the U.S. in 2018. It’s a a sickness.
You can stop the contagion thanks to a new in iOS 13 feature that directs incoming calls from unknown numbers (ie. those you don’t have in your Contacts book) to voicemail. It’s a useful feature that isn’t enabled by default.
Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:24:15 +0000
According to a new report, nearly 30% of all US calls placed in the first half of 2019 were garbage, as in, nuisance, scam or fraud calls.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/UDmV3nOCTag” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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