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Personal data stored on smartphones by 50 percent of users

26

Sep

2017

With more than half of the world’s population using a smartphone and with over half of the world’s web traffic coming from mobile phones, it’s understandable that 50 percent of users store their personal and private information on their smartphones, according to a Bitdefender survey* performed during April 2017. Teenagers aged between 18 and 22 […]

Category Mobile security Written by Hotforsecurity 0 Comments

Bugs in Arris Modems Distributed by AT&T Vulnerable to Trivial Attacks

01

Sep

2017

Trivially exploitable vulnerabilities have been discovered in several Arris home modems, routers, and gateways distributed to consumers and small businesses through AT&T’s U-verse service. It’s unknown yet whether the firmware vulnerabilities were introduced by the OEM or the ISP since AT&T seems to have access to Arris firmware and can customize code on the devices […]

Category Vulnerabilities Written by Threatpost 0 Comments

Is Your Mobile Carrier Your Weakest Link?

28

Aug

2017

More online services than ever now offer two-step authentication — requiring customers to complete a login using their phone or another mobile device after supplying a username and password. But with so many services relying on your mobile for that second factor, there has never been more riding on the security of your mobile account. […]

Category Mobile security Privacy protection Written by Krebsonsecurity 0 Comments

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