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What to watch out for at MWC 2017

The new CSP as a data-driven platform business, intelligent automation, Security, Connected Home, 5G and Mixed Reality are the Stories to Watch for Mobile World Congress 2017.

• 06 Feb 2017

Mobile app fraud: how to fight back to protect against risk

With the rise of app-install products offered by leading advertising platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram and Snapchat, smartphones today are a much more appealing target for potential fraud than ever before.

• 30 Jan 2017

Trump defies security risks to keep “old, unsecured Android device”

President Trump has, allegedly, thrown caution to the wind and ditched security protocol by insisting he still gets to use his old Android handset.

• 26 Jan 2017

WhatsApp encryption supplier denies ‘backdoor’ but misses the point

Open Whisper Systems, the company behind the encryption features at WhatsApp, has denied there is an open backdoor in its security, but didn’t address the main point of the article.

• 16 Jan 2017

WhatsApp faces another privacy PR disaster

WhatsApp has picked up in 2017 where it finished in 2016 fighting another potential PR disaster as researchers claim there is a security backdoor to its encryption.

• 13 Jan 2017

BT sort of addresses security concerns with Trend Micro tie-up

BT has announced the immediate availability of Trend Micro’s Deep Security data centre solution on its cloud compute platform, but does that actually answer the question of security?

• 12 Jan 2017

US and Spain the main originators of mobile fraud – Syniverse

A lot of mobile fraud exploits roaming vulnerabilities and two countries in particular seem to facilitate it.

• 11 Jan 2017

2017 Predictions: What the industry thinks

While 2016 proved to be a solid year for incremental advancements in 5G, IoT and cloud computing, 2017 is set to be a big year for a number of breakthrough technologies.

• 23 Dec 2016

Data Revelations: Nominum Data Science Security Report

This inaugural security report from Nominum Data Science comes from the frontlines of the war against cybercrime, examining the most prevalent and effective malware in today’s threat landscape—including DDoS, DNS amplification and pseudo-random subdomain (PRSD) attacks. Nominum Data Science reveals the methods and mechanics behind emerging and pervasive threats, such as Locky, Necurs and Ghost Push. The team analyzes over 100 billion DNS queries every day and employs advanced techniques, including proprietary algorithms and machine learning, to give you the best insight into today’s dynamic threat landscape.

• 15 Dec 2016

That’s no moon – DT brings drone defence system online

Deutsche Telekom has been watching Star Wars again. The German telco has completed work on a drone defence system which can identify and neutralise aerial invaders.

• 01 Dec 2016

Operators need to get smart to prevent IoT hacks

Mainstream media coverage of the DDoS attack on IPM company Dyn may have waned, but this major security breach will remain at the fore for many operators – and for good reason.

• 23 Nov 2016

DT answers calls to protect football fans from drones

Deutsche Telekom in reportedly in the midst of creating a defence system which can be used to combat the rise of drones in the skies.

• 07 Nov 2016

The cloud is great, but it’s made us lazy – IBM

When adopting any new technologies security is always a primary concern and this is no different with the cloud. But do people actually understand what they should be securing?

• 05 Oct 2016

Surely email spying bombshell means Verizon won’t buy Yahoo now

Yahoo looks more than ever like damaged goods after Reuters claims that the company colluded with US intelligence services to scan all its customers’ emails for keywords.

• 05 Oct 2016

Pokémon Go – who’s responsible for protecting your data from fraud?

Once downloaded, the Pokémon Go app asks users for a whole host of user permissions to access their contacts, camera, SD card content and, most importantly, GPS location.

• 26 Sep 2016

Did Yahoo breach Verizon’s trust?

As news of the Yahoo data breach hits the headlines, two questions spring to mind; who would have thought Yahoo has 500 million users, and secondly, what does this mean for the Verizon deal?

• 23 Sep 2016

Vodafone proves it’s no nuisance with flurry of announcements

“Good morning, I’m calling to discuss your mis-sold PPI, you could be owed thousands. I’d just like to confirm some details with you, including an address you lived at 20 years ago which we inexplicably have.”

• 22 Sep 2016

Security in an untrusted world: a new model for the Mobile Cloud

Mobile is the consumption vehicle for the enterprise cloud and, specifically, the mobile app is becoming the preferred interface of employees to all their cloud services.

• 20 Sep 2016

Keeping one step ahead of SMS fraud

A significant percentage of all SMS traffic is now spam or fraud related in some way, with mobile devices being hacked, attacked or exploited in order to send phony promotional messages to or from the unwitting victim’s phone.

• 14 Sep 2016

Snooper’s Charter review declares telco data “vital” to national security

UK telcos will soon find themselves under renewed pressure to comply with government interception of communications data, following the release of an independent report into surveillance.

• 23 Aug 2016