Mobile security


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Mobile Security

FBI warns about fraudsters targeting banking app users

FBI warns about fraudsters targeting banking app users

Mobile Security

FBI warns about fraudsters targeting banking app users

Watch out for attacks attempting to take advantage of the lockdown-induced surge in mobile banking use

Amer Owaida12 Jun 2020


Mobile Security

How secure is your phone’s lock screen?

How secure is your phone’s lock screen?

Mobile Security

How secure is your phone’s lock screen?

From the humble passcode to biometric authentication, there are quite a few options to lock your Android phone. But which of them are more secure than the others?

Amer Owaida05 Jun 2020


ESET Research, Mobile Security

Insidious Android malware gives up all malicious features but one to gain stealth

Insidious Android malware gives up all malicious features but one to gain stealth

ESET Research, Mobile Security

Insidious Android malware gives up all malicious features but one to gain stealth

ESET researchers detect a new way of misusing Accessibility Service, the Achilles’ heel of Android security

Lukas Stefanko22 May 2020


Mobile Security

Lukas Stefanko: How we fought off a DDoS attack from a mobile botnet

Lukas Stefanko: How we fought off a DDoS attack from a mobile botnet

Mobile Security

Lukas Stefanko: How we fought off a DDoS attack from a mobile botnet

Hot on the heels of his research into an attack that attempted to take down ESET’s website, Lukas Stefanko sheds more light on threats posed by mobile botnets

Editor12 May 2020


Mobile Security

What to do you if your phone is lost or stolen

What to do you if your phone is lost or stolen

Mobile Security

What to do you if your phone is lost or stolen

Losing your smartphone can be expensive, but the cost of the device may not be the final price you’ll be paying

Amer Owaida06 Apr 2020


Mobile Security

Have you backed up your smartphone lately?

Have you backed up your smartphone lately?

Mobile Security

Have you backed up your smartphone lately?

With World Backup Day upon us, we walk you through the ways to back up your iPhone or Android phone so that your personal information remains safe

Amer Owaida31 Mar 2020


Mobile Security

Semi‑annual balance of mobile security 2019

Semi‑annual balance of mobile security 2019

Mobile Security

Semi‑annual balance of mobile security 2019

Malware detections for iOS increased, as did the number of vulnerabilities detected in this operating system, while in the case of Android, the number of reported vulnerabilities decreased, although the number of highly critical bugs reported increased.

Denise Giusto Bilić05 Sep 2019


Mobile Security

You’d better change your birthday – hackers may know your PIN

You’d better change your birthday – hackers may know your PIN

Mobile Security

You’d better change your birthday – hackers may know your PIN

Are you in the 26% of people who use one of these PIN codes to unlock their phones?

Jake Moore19 Jun 2019


Mobile Security

Face unlock on many Android smartphones falls for a photo

Face unlock on many Android smartphones falls for a photo

Mobile Security

Face unlock on many Android smartphones falls for a photo

No 3D-printed heads or realistic masks were needed to trick even a handful of high-end handset models into unlocking their screens

Tomáš Foltýn10 Jan 2019