Selfies for mobile security might sound like something dreamt up by a group of millennials. But the technology is gaining traction in banking and beyond as a new approach to online digital identification. For example, Lloyds Banking Group is rolling out selfie-based authentication technology for online account set-up. Customers applying to open a current account … Continue reading “Mobile Payment Authentication : Pay With a Selfie”
Today our phones are not mere communication devices; they contain much more valuable and highly sensitive information such as our photos, bank credentials, personal\Official Data as well. Information, which if reached under the wrong hands, may affect us adversely and the threat is real. Nowadays, the attacks on private data stored on our mobile devices … Continue reading “Protect the sensitive data on your phone”
Android is the famous operating system with billion devices running. Everyone is aware of it. It was launched into the market by Google. It’s features made people stick to Android. There are many Android lovers in the world. It’s famous for its Google Play Store which has almost any kind of application from dating to desserts. … Continue reading “The Biggest Android Security Vulnerabilities”
Have you realized where we live? Well, we live in our mobile devices, if not physically well then very much virtually and mentally. All our life, memories, people we know, accounts we own, places we’ve been to, a conversation we’ve had and future we are planning, is in our mobile device in some form or … Continue reading “Securing Your Mobile World”
You heard me correctly. There is nothing Sexy about the Sexy Virus or Porn Virus that is plaguing Android devices right now. Who knows you may be the next unwilling victim to be infected with this Virus. Statistics show that this virus infects more than 600,000 or more users’ worldwide per day and makes the … Continue reading “There Is Nothing Sexy About the Sexy Virus on Android”
Android security has been sweetened so much it’s hard to reconcile that KitKat and Marshmallow come from the same jar. Yet for the two years of advancements between Android KitKat version 4.4 and Marshmallow version 6, experts still see a long road ahead for the improvements to security defense. Enter Copperhead, the stripped down, hardened, … Continue reading “The World’s Most Secure Android OS, for Free”
A few years back, Smartphones and Mobile Devices were considered as additional gadgets. People used to carry around those devices to make a few phone calls or to text someone. Now, in the current scenario, mobile devices are something inevitable for most people’s daily lives. Nevertheless, conforming to this change, threats have also been refocused. … Continue reading “Five Tips for Effective Mobile Security”
Those days are gone when account deposits or withdrawal required a visit at your bank to complete a transaction. Nowadays we have lots of option for financial transaction. Among all the options Mobile Banking is an increasingly popular way to manage and monitor your bank account. According to Javelin Strategy and Research, mobile banking increased … Continue reading “How to Secure Banking Apps of Your Smartphone?”
Most people these days have a smartphone. These phones are actually no longer just mobile phones, in reality they are powerful mobile computers with several GB RAM, multicore CPUs and many GB storage. Despite these characteristics which bring them closer to computers than to phones, most of their users don’t consider security and privacy in … Continue reading “How to Easily Secure your Smartphone”
Google is shrinking the oceans of attack vectors once available to bad guys with every Android update but treacherous rivers remain for Android malware. Chief among those vectors are screen overlay techniques, which are some of the most capable features modern malware authors are abusing to compromise new and updated Android phones. Compromising modern Android … Continue reading “Android Malware Compromising Modern Devices”
