Tag: mobile security issues

Consumers still aren’t paying attention to mobile security despite rising threats

Sam Lambert
Mobile security - smartphone with a lock image

New research shows people aren’t paying attention even as they use phones for more banking and payments. Over the last year, people are using their smartphones for more banking, shopping and payments than ever before, but still aren’t paying enough attention to mobile security, says new research. Even as the number of digital threats continue to grow at a rapid pace, consumers remain careless. The research was conducted by McAfee, which recently published the results in a report. In it, they revealed that 49 percent of consumers in the United…

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Mobile security adoption is inadequate in New Zealand

Jennifer Goula
Mobile Security threats

A report from Norton Cybercrime has shown that consumers are not protecting their smartphones. Norton Cybercrime has released a report that provides insights into the use – and lack thereof – of mobile security protection and behaviors by the people of New Zealand in order to help to improve awareness of the issue. The report’s release was aligned with the first day of New Zealand Cyber Security Awareness Week. The awareness week began on May 27, 2013 and pointed out a number of issues regarding the behaviors that people maintain…

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Mobile payments use is increasing, but so are security worries

Stephanie Beck
Mobile security payments online retail card

Experts are predicting that the amount of fraud will rise as the usage of these services grows. Though slow to start in terms of consumer adoption, mobile payments technology has the potential to revolutionize the way that purchases are made and transactions are completed. At the same time, as with any growth in technology popularity, this opens the door to fraud. Industry experts are finding that as the trend grows toward the use of mobile payments technology, so does the concern regarding its security and the protection that it provides…

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The truth about the collection and use of eReceipts and mobile payment data

Julie Campbell
Geotargeting

Mobile payments and eReceipts are primed and ready to become widespread, but as this is a brand new technology and technique, many people are wondering how the data collected from their devices in order to perform those transactions will be used by retailers and merchants. The traditional online marketplace, with its e-commerce, email marketing, and other forms of online advertising, are now considered to be technologies that have matured, and standard privacy practices are in place to help regulate them. There had been a wrench thrown into the works by…

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Mobile device data capacity leads to tremendous security risks

John Montgallo
Mobile Security

According to experts, the data capacity and portability of mobile devices are bringing about a series of significant security issues. Assistant vice president of Aon Risk Solutions, Sarah Stephens, a San-Francisco-based unit of Aon Corp., pointed out that people set the devices down and leave them unattended. That said, the greater the storage capacity of the devices, the more sensitive information is frequently stored within them, and the greater the risk if the device be misplaced or stolen. This was explained by Stephens at the first Cyber & Privacy Risk…

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