Endpoint/Device Security

Respondents to a new survey from FICO unanimously agreed: Data breaches this year in other industries will damage financial institutions.

After patching a critical flaw in the Android OS's code and releasing it to open source, Google hinted that Perception Point's estimate that more than two-thirds of the devices would be impacted by the Linux vulnerability was "exaggerated,"

What was once a low-threat, basic spyware trojan has evolved into very powerful banking malware capable of giving hackers near-total control over one's Android device, warned Kaspersky Lab yesterday.

Unregulated Chinese tech companies are selling IMSI catchers on the black market to oppressive regimes.

A bill that languished in the New York State Assembly last year that would require smartphone manufacturers to build a backdoor into their encrypted devices is still alive and could potentially be voted on at some point this year.

The recently discovered mobile-banking trojan SlemBunk is proving more resilient than first thought and is actively being used in several on-going campaigns.

Smartwatches and other wearable devices may make us vulnerable whenever we don them due to their motion sensors.

Sean Penn and Rolling Stone Editor Jann Wenner said the actor/director and the magazine took a number of security measures—including the use of "burner"phones and encryption to communicate and set up an interview with fugitive drug lord El Chapo.