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McAfee helps keep consumers even safer on their mobile devices
McAfee helps keep consumers even safer on their mobile devices
Enhanced McAfee Mobile Security App Provides Ultimate Privacy Protection and Refreshed User Experience
December 10th 2012. McAfee has announced the release of an enhanced version of McAfee Mobile Security featuring App Lock, an innovative new app privacy technology, as well as a completely refreshed user interface. The enriched and all-inclusive security solution provides Android smartphone and tablet users with the power to ensure that the personal information living inside their mobile apps remains personal and protected. Continue reading
Take care of your smartphone at the Olympics
Rating: Top Tips from mobile security specialist, McAfee
Today’s London Olympics 2012 themed story comes to you courtesy of McAfee. It says, “As the UK descends into a sporting frenzy this summer, it can be easy to become a little sloppy about keeping your mobile devices safe and secure.” Believe it or not, security specialist McAfee reckons that it has recently identified several mobile scams related to sports which encourage consumers to enter competitions by sharing their personal details. These can take the form of text messages, social network spam or emails offering fake tickets or lottery wins. Hence the company has come up with its Top Five tips on staying save with your mobile device. Continue reading
Guest Post: NFC payment test at Olympics will inspire mobile attackers to go for the Gold
by Jimmy Shah Mobile Security Researcher with McAfee
Visa is testing out its PayWave contactless payment service at the Summer Olympics in London. Every athlete will get a Samsung Galaxy SIII phone enabled with near-field communication (NFC) along with Visa’s payment app. Contactless payments aren’t new, and similar payments by mobile phone have been tested by Google with its Wallet app and other NFC smartphones. When we last looked at NFC phones and similar apps, there were questions of whether an attacker could go after the apps or the phone hardware and the Android OS. Since then we have seen a PIN-reset vulnerability that allowed an attacker to use the free prepaid card and the ability to crack PINs on the phone. Continue reading
Posted in Featured, NFC, android, google, mobile payments, mobile security
Tagged Charlie Miller, Collin Mulliner, Galaxy SIII, google, Jimmy Shah, McAfee, NFC, Olympics, payWave, Samsung, Via, Wallet
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BYOD is not popular with most UK organisations McAfee reveals
Rating: Smartphones still not seen as proper business tools
There has been a great deal of buzz around ‘Bring-Your-Own-Device’ (BYOD) schemes as some suppliers and observers would have us think. These facts emerged from a recent survey of 100 IT professionals from UK organisations, carried out by security specialist – McAfee. We know that BOYD is popular with employees – asked if their users valued certain devices over others, 89 per cent of those surveyed claimed that this was the case. However, these IT professionals are pretty scared of letting mobile devices into their environment. Continue reading
Posted in BYOD, RIM, mobile security, nokia, tablets
Tagged BOYD, McAfee, Raj Samani, Security
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McAfee says Android malware is getting more sophisticated
Rating: Targets mobile banking users in particular
McAfee is warning that Android malware which attempts to defraud smartphone owners by obtaining their mTANs (Mobile Transaction Numbers) is getting more sophisticated. The security specialist is claiming that it may be possible to obtain the necessary information to defeat the two-factor authentication security scheme which is commonly used by High Street banks. GoMobile News has already covered the banking ‘token generator ‘ scam which seems to have afflicted Spanish banks here. However, McAfee now says that it has now found Android malware that not only has the man-in-the-middle (MIM) functionality but can also be controlled remotely. This means it can grab the initial password from a mobile device without infecting the user’s PC. To avoid being caught out, McAfee has published a number of handy tips of Android owners. Continue reading
Posted in android, mobile security
Tagged android, Android/FakeToken.A, Avast, banking, Man In The Middle, McAfee, mTANs, token
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Spanish speakers hit by fake Android banking apps
Rating: Just exactly is this malware escaping into the wild?
It seems a number of players in the mobile security sector are getting hot under the collar thanks to the discovery of ‘fake’ mobile banking Android apps. At present, it seems to GoMobile News that these attacks are targeting Spanish speakers – particularly as the banks in question are Banesto, BBVA and Santander. What’s really worrying the security experts is that they are not quite sure how these Android malware apps are escaping into the wild. However, at least one security software provider, ESET, is confident that its Android security app will pick up these nasty example of malware ‘heuristically’ as a variant of the Android Trojan – SMS Stealer C. The issue has been highlighted by The Hacker News here which in turn spotted mention of the outbreak on McAfee blog post here. Continue reading
Posted in App stores, Facebook, Featured, Social Networking, android, bebo, google, mobile money, mobile security
Tagged apps, Banesto, banking, BBVA, David Harley, ESET, Google Play, malware, McAfee, Santander, The Hacker News
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Maybe PhonepayPlus has got something to hide
Rating: Watchdog still hasn’t learnt how to bite, though
Usually when you put out a Press release on 22nd December [2011] at 5.45 pm which says it has an “embargo 00.01 am 27 December 2011″, then the issuer is definitely trying to bury some news. (See here). PhonepayPlus did this very thing but try as hard as we could, we couldn’t see anything in the information which needed to be hidden. But – and this is a big but – the regulator is still displaying a remarkable lack of courage in trying to control the industry is has been put in charge of. Basically that’s the Premium Rate SMS sector. Now, it’s very laudable that PhonepayPlus has sponsored the PhoneBrain social enterprise competition challenges for 11 – 19 year olds. The finalists will present their ideas in January to a panel of industry experts at ITV’s London headquarters. ITV, eh? Isn’t that the TV company which perpetrated some of the worse cases of premium rate fraud (here). Yup, it is. Who’s the compere? Gary Glitter? Continue reading
Posted in Premium rate text, mobile security
Tagged Avast, Bullguard, F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Paul Whiteing, PhonepayPlus’, Sophos, Symantec, Trend
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Malware threat maybe exaggerated
Rating: Beware of Netflix malware – Android.Fakeneflic
There’s a healthy debate going on as to how vulnerable mobile phones are becoming to attacks from viruses and malware. The FT (here) has just reported figures from Lookout Mobile Security which claims that between January and June [2011], there was a 250 per cent increase in the likelihood of users encountering malware on their mobile devices. By comparison, Juniper Networks says Google Android malware samples grew 400 per cent between June 2010 and January 2011. Against this, Craig Scroggie who is md for the Pacific region operations with Symantec, has stated that the overall volume of mobile threats remains low compared to computer-based threats. Writing in the Technology Spectator here, he claimed, “It is not accurate to say the anticipated ‘explosion’ has occurred.” Continue reading
Posted in android, iphone, mobile security
Tagged Android.Fakeneflic, Craig Scroggie, John Dasher, lookout, malware, McAfee, Security, Social Networking, Symantec
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