A new study by Deloitte Australia’s has confirmed what most consumers have probably already come to suspect about how their mobile phone impacts their privacy.
Andrew Colley | 20 May | Read more
A range of mobile apps are leaking back-end credentials that allow anybody to access millions of user records, a new study has found. This should come as little surprise given the sloppy approach taken by many organisations to securing privileged accounts, one analysis warns. Little wonder potential government cloud adopters are concerned about cloud-providers' lack of transparency.
David Braue | 23 Nov | Read more
It took nine months of back-and-forth with the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), extensive code changes and a new approach to sensitive-application certification, but the world-first Australian approval of the Citrix Worx Mobile Apps – allowing them to carry PROTECTED-level government information – will set the pace for similar efforts in other countries, according to the company's government-market head.
David Braue | 22 Oct | Read more
Australians are happy to compromise their privacy to get new mobile apps, are far less concerned about mobile viruses than residents of other countries, and think they know more about what personal information an app is sharing than they actually do, according to a new study of mobile users' app privacy perceptions.
David Braue | 05 Feb | Read more
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate the data gathering and sharing practices of makers of personal fitness devices and applications.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 12 Aug | Read more
A lot of people right now are selling their old iPhones and iPad minis to trade up to the supersized iPhone 6 models. Unfortunately, I suspect some of them are being scammed out of their devices -- I nearly was.
James A. Martin | 12 Sep | Read more
Google will provide enterprise-focused security and management features to its entire Android showcase of mobile devices, including features reserved only for Samsung devices running Samsung security software called Knox, a Google executive announced during the Google I/O keynote address Wednesday.
Matt Hamblen | 26 Jun | Read more
Your smartphone can be a beacon telling the world where you are, with increasing precision. Is that good commerce or bad privacy, or maybe a bit of both?
Lamont Wood | 21 Jan | Read more
Apple's App Store, Google's Play store and other app stores are packed with apps that can compromise your security and privacy without you ever knowing anything bad happened. What's a mobile app user to do?
Mike Elgan | 07 Dec | Read more
The enterprise has gone mobile and there's no turning back. And while the BYOD movement has received plenty of attention, IT departments are getting a handle on the security risks of personal mobile devices in the workplace. The next challenge is "bring your own application" (BYOA), because many public app stores have serious malware problems.
Michelle Drolet, founder of Towerwall | 20 Jun | Read more
This research report which looks at how Gen X and Y, their adoption of mobile technology and how they prefer to be identified. The research explores how the ‘trust’ paradigm has shifted from having them prove who they are, to being recognised for who they are. Both our identities and our consumption of financial services are now inextricably fused with our mobile device, which is why mobile identity is a critical issue and why this research is so timely.
