Mobile security

Smartphone authentication: is biometric technology ready to replace PINs and passwords?

The Samsung Galaxy S5 and other 'unnamed Android devices' are vulnerable to having the fingerprints they use for authentication cloned by hackers, reports Gizmodo.

Around 1,500 apps for iPhone and iPad contain an HTTPS vulnerability making it 'trivial' for hackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks to steal passwords, bank details and other private information.

Last week’s Apple Watch launch has put the spotlight back on the ‘smart’ inter-connected watches that are expected to change how we interact with each other and the internet. But how secure are they?

Nearly 40 percent of large companies - including a significant number in the Fortune 500 - are not taking necessary precautions to secure the apps that they're providing their customers.

A survey of more than a million apps on the Google Play and iOS App Store has found that more than 40 percent of 'risky mobile' apps originate from the United States

Google has announced it is to pay out research grants to security researchers seeking out potential bugs, even if they turn up empty-handed, reports ZDNet.

Tracking apps and spyware are a genuine risk, and an extremely unpleasant invasion of privacy for many. Here are our tips on how to recognize if you have a tracking app on your phone, and what to do about it.

A vulnerability in Android's Wi-Fi Direct functionality has been uncovered by security researchers.