Tag: mobile phone security

Mobile security gets a huge Samsung and IBM collaboration to support it

Jennifer Goula
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The companies have announced a strategic partnership for enhanced enterprise protection Samsung made a massive new mobile security for enterprise announcement at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, in which it said it was collaborating with IBM to recreate device protection for business customers. The solution will bring Samsung Knox and IBM’s QRadar together The mobile security solution that will result from the collaboration will be offered by Samsung later in 2024. It will involve the integration of Samsung Knox on-device intelligence into the IBM Security QRadar Suite. By combining…

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Security Options for Mobile Devices

Guest Post
security for mobile devices

Going anywhere and being connected is one of the best benefits modern tech has allowed people, but with that privilege comes the need to protect those devices and their data from threats. This is a crucial step to take when you are, whether you are using mobile devices for work or personal reasons. For a business site, it is paramount that they take these measures before letting employees walk out with sensitive data on their hands. Here are some of the threats mobile devices are up against: Unsafe networks, employees…

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Microsoft Defender may provide your iPhone with added security

L. Green
Microsoft Defender - iPhone

The tech rivals will be working together as rather unlikely partners in keeping user data secure. Microsoft Defender may seem like the last option you’d expect to be headed to iPhone security, but it looks as though that’s exactly what’s happening. The annual RSA security conference in San Francisco revealed initial details about the security move. The Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) client for Macs began in 2019. The RSA security conference began on February 24 and was the venue for the announcement that the security features would be…

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Is your mobile phone security at risk because of your own actions?

L. Green
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A private investigator is cautioning consumers that they’re sharing their smartphone numbers too often. There are a number of mobile phone security risks to which device users are exposing themselves every day without even knowing it. The result, says private investigator Thomas Martin who is a former Drug Enforcement Agency agent, is that consumers are providing third parties with access to a surprisingly large amount of information about themselves. The cause is an over-willingness of American consumers to share their phone numbers. Cell numbers have a direct link to our…

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Smartphone iris scanner built into Samsung Galaxy S8 easily fooled

L. Green
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It takes nothing more than a photograph and a contact lens to trick the phone’s mobile security feature. The sophisticated and hyped smartphone iris scanner in the Samsung Galaxy S8 isn’t quite as secure as marketing claims have suggested. A German hacking group called the Chaos Computer Club has found a simple way around what Samsung called “one of the safest ways to keep your phone locked.” The electronics giant said that the patterns on a person’s iris are “virtually impossible to replicate.” That said, members of the German club…

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