Tag Archives: phishing

Bizarre phishing attempts of our time

Published on Thursday, October 11th by Hans Cett

Rating: Ignore ‘O2 reset confirmation ‘ email messages

Given that GoMobile News subscribes to all five UK mobile networks in order to avoid accusations of bias, when we got a message through on our Hotmail email account purporting to be from O2, we were more than a little curious. On face value, the message said we were trying to reset a handset and O2 was thanking us for staying with the network. The header said ‘O2 reset confirmation’. Except, of course, that no such attempt to reset an O2 handset had been made by us here at GoMobile Towers. Continue reading →

Posted in mobile security, o2 | Tagged confirmation, o2, phishing, reset, spam | Leave a comment

Only 5 per cent of smartphones & tablets are protected says Juniper

Published on Tuesday, September 25th by Hans Cett

Rating: Despite the fact that good security apps are free

Despite the publicity given to malware, fraud and device theft and the fact that many of the leading and respected mobile security applications for smartphones are actually free, the vast majority of smartphones and tablets apparently remain unprotected. According to a new report from Juniper Research only 5 per cent of global smartphones and tablet devices have security software installed. The report, ‘Mobile Security Strategies: Threats, Solutions & Market Forecasts 2012-2017‘ forecasts that both corporate and personal users will begin to recognise the need to protect their data. It also predicts that the demand for mobile security products will increase over the next five years to a point where 20 per cent mobile devices will be protected by third party security software. That’s still a massive 80 per cent left unprotected. Continue reading →

Posted in BYOD, Mobile Stats, mobile security | Tagged Juniper Research, mobile security, Nitin Bhas, phishing, Synchronica | Leave a comment

Guest Blog: Bring Your Own Device and the Mobile Perimeter

Published on Monday, July 16th by admin

by David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP, ESET Senior Research Fellow

I crept into the IT industry (and thence into security and eventually the anti-malware industry later than you might think, but still early enough to find myself using and supporting dumb terminals, dedicated word processors, and some pretty primitive PC and Apple desktops – often using terminal emulation software so as to access ‘real’ computing power: Unix or VMS, mostly). Kermit may be a frog to you, but it’s still a communications protocol to me! [Oops, I remember Kermit too. Ed] Continue reading →

Posted in mobile security | Tagged android, botnet, BYOD, David Harley, ESET, malware, phishing, SMS fraud, targeted social engineering, Terry Zink | 1 Comment

NetQin ups the anti-phishing capability of it Mobile Security app

Published on Wednesday, December 7th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Strikes a deal to add Commtouch’s GlobalView URL filtering

NetQin Mobile has struck a deal with Commtouch to integrate Commtouch‘s GlobalView URL filtering into NetQin’s Mobile Security app. The pair forgot to mention it, but this app will run on Symbian, BlackBerry and Android with support for Windows Mobile currently but not Windows Phone (W7 Mango) quite yet. The move is a reaction to the growing awareness that phishing (stealing personal data) is a growing problem for mobile phone users. Through URL filtering, the pair hope to prevent threats before they can even get near the user’s smartphone. Continue reading →

Posted in BlackBerry, Mobile applications, WP7, Windows Mobile, android, symbian | Tagged anti-virus, Commtouch, GlobalView, Henry Yu Lin, malware, mobile security, NetQin, phishing, URL filtering | 1 Comment

Cyber criminals move from email to SMS

Published on Tuesday, December 6th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Don’t call phone numbers embedded in a bank’s text

Research from Cloudmark reveals that cyber criminals are moving from email onto SMS and using increasingly sophisticated methods to swindle US handset owners. The company is presently tracking over 20 unique, financial related SMS attacks in the USA with thousands of variants on each attack. Such trends are now expected to make an appearance in the European and UK security spaces. Consequently, mobile users worldwide need to be aware of the telltale signs of SMS frauds and know how to protect themselves. Curiously, Cloudmark doesn’t say if there are any anti-phishing apps available for iOS or Android, for example, which would prove effective. Instead it focuses on solutions which prevent mobile network operators delivering the fraudulent SMS messages in the first place. Continue reading →

Posted in SMS, mobile security | Tagged 7726, cloudmark, fraud, Hugh McCartney, phishing, Phishlock, Sentrybay, SMS, spam | 1 Comment

Industry warns over voice-to-data crossover

Published on Friday, March 26th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Basically mobile operators are in deep doo-dahs

The recent announcement by Ericsson that data traffic had surpassed voice traffic on the world’s mobile telephone networks caused a flurry of activity amongst mobile industry companies – all anxious to share their thoughts with GoMo News. The crossover was inevitable but the panic it has caused, wasn’t. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Broadband, Mobile Operators, mobile news | Tagged AdaptiveMobile, churn, Compuware, crossover, ericsson, fraud, Hans Vestberg, phishing, Richard Stone, Simeon Coney, spam | 1 Comment

How secure is iPhone 3.1? Latest security scare is phishing

Published on Thursday, September 10th by Cian O' Sullivan

What’s this? Another iPhone security scare? These seem to pop up and then blow away every couple of weeks. The most recent scare story surrounding Apple actually concerns an apparent failure of Apple to live up to a promise. In this case, the promise was that there would be effective anti-phishing technology for Mobile Safari under the new iPhone 3.1 update. Continue reading →