Category Archives: Mobile

Apple Patches Three New iOS Zero-Days

While Apple has a significant focus on making iOS secure, one researcher said increasingly complex capabilities often bring vulnerabilities.

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70% of apps for the manufacturing sector spent all of 2020 with at least one security flaw

With public administration apps, the number that went a year with an unpatched security flaw dropped to 67 percent, and nine other sectors ranged between 50 and 60 percent, according to research from WhiteHat Security.

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Google: Attacker ‘likely’ had access to Android zero-day vulnerabilities

Google’s Project Zero this week introduced a six-part series that offers an analysis of four zero-day vulnerabilities on Windows and Chrome, and known-day Android exploits it found during the team’s extensive research last year.

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Fourth breach at T-Mobile puts focus on security of post mergers

T-Mobile reported a breach that compromised customer data – the company’s fourth in three years – raises questions about whether the mobile carrier’s massive merger with Sprint left the combined company more vulnerable. Indeed, when companies merge, particularly sizable ones, the integration of technology systems and networks can often introduce new security considerations. “The volume…

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