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Apple's latest controversy: Expanded App Store advertising

August 1, 2022 0 Comments Apple, Mobile, mobile apps, Privacy, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:03:00 -0700

Depending on how you look at it, Apple may be ramping up ways developers can reach out durectly to customers via its App Store – or building its own business at others’ expense.

What Apple is doing

Apple has had an advertising business of its own ever since Apple’s then CEO, Steve Jobs, introduced us to iAds in 2010. The scale of that offer was always limited to Apple’s platform, but the service arguably failed, with its technology living on in the form of ad slots in Apple News and the App Store.

Apple’s App Store currently hosts just two ad slots, one in the search tab and the other in Search results. You can tell when you are looking at an ad from the blue shade behind the graphic and a small blue badge that says “ad” – these ads are hard to mistake for content.

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ComputerWorld Independent

How to stay smart about Android app permissions

July 20, 2022 0 Comments Android, Data privacy, Google, mobile apps, Privacy, Security

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700

When it comes to Android and privacy, we’re accustomed to seeing things move in a certain direction.

It’s simple, really: With each new Android version, it usually gets easier to manage your privacy and understand how your information is being used. And we typically get more front-facing tools and under-the-hood improvements that allow us to handle that stuff intelligently. Obviously, right?

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MalwareBytes Security

Fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps are duping investors

July 19, 2022 0 Comments Applications, cryptocurrency, FBI, financials, mobile apps, scams, Social engineering

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 13:29:47 +0000

The FBI has warned about fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps that are defrauding victims.

The post Fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps are duping investors appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

ComputerWorld Independent

FCC commissioner wants Apple, Google to remove TikTok from App Stores

June 29, 2022 0 Comments Apple, Google, Mobile, mobile apps, Security, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 05:34:00 -0700

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has written to Apple and Google to request that both companies remove the incredibly popular TikTok app from their stores, citing a threat to national security.

Is your data going TikTok?

Carr warns the app collects huge quantities of data and cited a recent report that claimed the company has accessed sensitive data collected from Americans. He argues that TikTok’s, “pattern of conduct and misrepresentations regarding the unfettered access that persons in Beijing have to sensitive U.S. data…puts it out of compliance,” with App Store security and privacy policies.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Apple confirms the scale of App Store fraud

June 2, 2022 0 Comments Apple, Mobile, mobile apps, Security, small and medium business

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 08:30:00 -0700

Apple says millions of fraudulent attempts are made against the App Store and its users each year. The company prevented $1.5 billion in fraudulent transactions in 2021, it said, in line with similar levels of fraud in 2020.

How people attempt to commit App Store fraud

The company explains how fraudsters attempt to commit fraud via the store.

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ComputerWorld Independent

UEM to marry security — finally — after long courtship

February 10, 2020 0 Comments Mobile, mobile apps, Mobile Management, Security, unified communications

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800

The days of enterprise security being a separate entity from mobile and desktop endpoint management are coming to an end, which should delight infrastructure and security teams who’ll eventually have more powerful machine learning-enabled tools at their disposal — and a single console through which to control them.

Security around mobile and desktop infrastructures has traditionally depended on what’s being managed; you purchase one for mobile devices and another for the rest of your endpoints, whether laptop or desktop.

While security threats are growing, particularly phishing attacks via email, SMS or hyperlinks, the amount of money companies spend on mobile security appears to be shrinking. And yet, the percentage of organizations that admit to having suffered a mobile compromise grew in 2019, according to a Verizon survey.

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ComputerWorld Independent

UEM to marry security – finally – after long courtship

February 10, 2020 0 Comments Mobile, mobile apps, Mobile Management, Security, unified communications

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800

The days of enterprise security being a separate entity from mobile and desktop endpoint management are coming to an end, which should delight infrastructure and security teams who’ll eventually have more powerful machine learning-enabled tools at their disposal – and a single console through which to control them.

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Security Sophos

Adobe fixes SDK weakness affecting mobile apps

November 11, 2019 0 Comments Adobe, Mobile, mobile apps, nightwatch cybersecurity, sdk, security threats, software development kit, vulnerability

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:13:21 +0000

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