Tag: smartphone security risks

Mobile security could benefit from combined Nokia and Microsoft effort

Jesse Collins
Microsoft mobile secrurity Outlook app

The two companies are actively working to raise the stakes for making the devices safer. Microsoft’s agreement to purchase the smartphone business from Nokia – worth $7.2 billion – is giving the software company the boost that it may need to surpass both Samsung and Apple in terms of mobile security. The company is gathering what it needs to create a smartphone platform that is enterprise class. Despite the fact that Microsoft does now have the technology and will soon also have the manufacturing facilities that it requires, it is…

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Mobile security issues grow with the channel’s popularity

John Montgallo
Mobile Security threats

Cyber crime is growing over smartphones and tablets as shopping and payments become more common. Studies are beginning to show that the comfort and confidence that consumers have with shopping and paying for purchases over their smartphones is beginning to grow, but the more common it becomes to use these devices, the bigger the mobile security threat is growing. Though the use of smartphones and tablets boosts opportunities and convenience, it also opens the door to fraudsters. Each new digital opportunity for consumers is also one that is being watched…

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