Category Archives: Mobile security

Users of mobile devices have unique security and privacy concerns to contend with.

Five Summer Travel Security Tips

June 24, 2011 – 3:16 pm

By Andrew Brandt Ah, summer. Beaches, drinks with little umbrellas, 4th of July fireworks, baseball games, reading long cheesy novels in a lounge chair, teleconferencing with colleagues from your hotel room in Aruba. Wait, what? Yes, it’s true. It takes serious discipline to travel without schlepping along a laptop, smartphone, digital camera, MP3 player, portable [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Firefox, Google Chrome, hijack search results, Internet Explorer, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (2)

Android ‘Angry Birds’ Malware Contains Bot-like Code

June 10, 2011 – 9:05 am

By Andrew Brandt Most of yesterday, Threat Research Analyst Armando Orozco and I took a closer look at a piece of malware discovered by a university security researcher, Xuxian Jiang of North Carolina State. The malicious code, which the malware creator named Plankton, is embedded into a number of apps that were briefly posted to [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Android, Backdoors, Botnet activity, Downloaders, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (16)

Chinese Android Trojan Texts Premium Numbers

May 11, 2011 – 12:42 pm

By Andrew Brandt and Armando Orozco A Trojaned application that displays a cutesy image of a 2011 calendar on an Android device’s desktop comes with a nasty surprise: The app sends text messages to a premium service that charges the phone’s owner money. As first reported by the Taiwan-based AegisLab, a single developer, which went [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in adware, Android, Dialers, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (1)

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

February 15, 2011 – 9:22 am

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director The cloud delivery model gives vendors a great amount of power. It is easier to create, deploy, maintain and enhance a service than it has been at any other point in computing history. Just look at Facebook, which grew to 500 million members in a very short period of [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Destructive behavior, Enterprises, phishing, Search engines | Comments (2)

The Big Picture for 2011 Security Trends

December 13, 2010 – 12:01 am

By Gerhard Eschelbeck As 2010 winds down, I wanted to pull out the crystal ball and talk for a moment about where the security industry seems to be heading in the coming year, and where we anticipate threats and targets. Mobile platforms: If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you have either an iPhone, [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Internet security industry, Online shopping threats, Passwords, social engineering | Comments (1)

Our Twitter Q&A with Threat Research Director Jeff Horne

December 15, 2009 – 12:18 pm

By Jeff Horne On December 11, 2009, users of Twitter submitted questions to Webroot’s Director of Threat Research, Jeff Horne, as part of a live Q&A session. Webroot’s Twitter followers asked questions about connecting safely to the Internet while traveling during the holidays. A variety of questions came in live, with some others through direct [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Passwords, Threat Research | Comments (1)

Oh, Hush Chicken Little – The Sky is Not Falling: Why Cloud Security is Still Safe

July 17, 2009 – 2:19 pm

By Brian Czarny This week it was impossible to escape the “big news” that Twitter got hacked. The French hacker, known as “Hacker Croll,” who made headlines back in May for a similar Twitter breach, was at it again. This time he managed to get his hands on at least 310 sensitive Twitter business documents [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Enterprises, Internet security industry, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

What Keeps IT Professionals Up at Night

July 6, 2009 – 2:09 pm

By Brian Czarny Webroot recently surveyed more than 300 email and Web security professionals about email management, compliance, archiving, encryption, spam, viruses, Web filtering and Web-based malware attacks.  Our research shows that security practices and risk perceptions have evolved over the last year – the top three security concerns are email threat protection, data security/confidentiality [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Enterprises, Internet security industry | Leave a Comment

Malware targets mobile IMers

May 7, 2009 – 2:49 pm

By Andrew Brandt Once in a while, you don’t have to do anything at all and malware just drops into your lap. That happened to me the other day, when I received a buddy request from a total stranger in my decade-old ICQ instant messenger account. It’s never failed to be a rich source for malicious links, SPIM, [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Comments (1)
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 609 other followers