Mobile Apps Pose Growing Risk as Development Outpaces Protection

Mobile Apps Pose Growing Risk as Development Outpaces Protection

Mobile applications have become the most underestimated and vulnerable component in corporate IT ecosystems, warns mobile security corporation NowSecure. Although massively integrated into business operations, software development speed outpaces the implementation of adequate security controls, creating an expanding attack surface with significant gaps for active exploitation. “Mobile is where users and data meet and where…

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Apple Doesn’t Have a Smartphone This Tiny and Cheap, Even $100 Still Gets You Change Back

Let’s rewind time for a moment. Remember when cell phones first passed that threshold where they stopped being a luxury and became something that just everyone had? They weren’t smart yet, they were just phones. And for those first several years, each iteration got smaller and smaller. Screens weren’t important. Customers prioritized the convenience of…

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ICE Bought Vehicles Capable of Tracking Cellphones | News

ICE Bought Vehicles Capable of Tracking Cellphones | News

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid $825,000 earlier this year for vehicles equipped with cellphone-tracking technology, according to public records reviewed by TechCrunch. The May 8 contract was awarded to TechOps Specialty Vehicles, a Maryland-based company, to provide “Cell Site Simulator (CSS) Vehicles” that can act as fake cellphone towers to locate nearby phones….

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