5 mobile security threats you should take seriously in 2018

IDGNS Mobile security is at the top of every company's worry list these days — and for good reason: Nearly all workers now routinely access corporate data from smartphones, and that means keeping sensitive info out of the wrong hands is an increasingly intricate puzzle. The stakes, suffice it to say, are higher than ever: The average cost of a corporate data breach is $21,155 per day, according to a 2016 report by the Ponemon Institute. While it's easy to focus on the sensational subject of malware, the truth is that mobile malware infections are incredibly uncommon in the real world — with your odds of being infected significantly less than your odds of being struck by lightning, according to one estimate. That's thanks...

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Xafecopy Trojan Will Steal Money From Your Mobile, protect your phone now!

Xafecopy Torjan is a new malware reported by cyber security firm, Kaspersky. As per the report, a new Malware is hitting the technology world which is stealing money from your smartphone. Xafecopy Trojan malware is spreading slowly over the world starting from India. As per the report, over 40% of malware target was found in India. Since, India is becoming more advance with technology, people are more into digital payment services. For that reason, hackers are moving on to this country. img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-41277" data-attachment-id="41277" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="Xafecopy Trojan Will Steal Money From Your Mobile, protect your phone now! " data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}"...

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Protect your PC: Ransomware attack increases by two fold in 2017

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Check if you were hit by the massive 'Avalanche' cybercrime ring

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. government has posted links for free scanning programs so companies and individuals can check their computers to make sure they weren't victims of a massive, international cyber criminal operation that was taken down Thursday after a four-year investigation. “This is probably the biggest operation that law enforcement has ever done against cyber crime,” said Catalin Cosoi, chief security strategist with BitDefender, one of the dozens of companies worldwide that worked with law enforcement to attack the group. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US_CERT) has posted links to five scanners on its site. Europol has also posted a list of sites in multiple languages for potentially infected users. The malware only affects systems running the Microsoft...

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Mcommerce fraud rate higher on Android devices

Mobile commerce fraud rate is higher on Android devices, a recent report points out. According to data from Kount, a provider of fraud detection technology, instances of fraud on Android devices was 44% higher than on iOS devices in 2014. The same source mentions that until 2013, fraud on iOS devices was more frequent than on Android, but currently, this has significantly changed. Findings indicate that Android’s US platform share has increased substantially since 2013. Android’s US platform share increased from 51.5% in June 2013 to 66.1% in June 2015, according to Kantar Worldpanel, while iOS's share declined from 42.5% to 30.5% during the same period. Fraud likely occurs on Android more often than iOS because there are now more Android devices. The report has also unveiled that mobile...

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