Mobile Banking Security Concerns on the Rise for Financial Institutions

It’s been almost a year since what some analysts consider the first successful major threat to mobile banking, known as Svpeng, hit the United States. Spreading via a text message campaign, the Svpeng malware went after Android phones. While Svpeng didn’t steal mobile banking credentials, it did detect the presence of certain mobile banking apps and then locked those phones for ransom.[...]

Mobile ADVERTISING

Why mobile advertising isn’t as huge as it’s hyped to be (yet)  

   

Christof Wittig is founder and CEO at LiquidM, a white-labeled Mobile Advertising Management Platform (MAMP).  Mobile is huge, tech pundits say. But most of them miss the fact that mobile advertising isn’t growing anywhere near the pace of mobile adoption. As Mary Meeker’s 2014 Internet Trends Report shows, mobile ads still represent just a fraction of the global Internet advertising spend, which is still dominated by desktop-based ads. And if mobile content can’t make enough money through advertising, mobile is largely unsustainable as a media platform.  This is a big problem for the industry, and while analysts like Meeker do a... 
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DATA Security

Beyond prisonware: Smart data access for mobile and PC users alike. 

 

Here's a radical idea: Monitor what users do with corporate data, rather than keep them from using it. 

Credit: Oleksiy Mark

What good is access to corporate data if you can't actually work on it? That's a question I pose to mobile security vendors several times a month as they pitch the same bad idea over and over again: systems that provide read-only access to corporate data to make sure it's not abused. Never mind the data can't be used, either. Seriously, why bother? Tell them...

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