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Millions Of Barclays Card Users Exposed To Fraud
In an expos? by the UK's BBC Channel 4, investigators were able to use card-reader-enabled mobile phones to lift the details from RFID-equipped bankcards simply by tapping the victim?s wallet. Information was then used to make a variety of purchases online, the easiest being Amazon.com

ITWORLD
Mozilla At Work On Mobile Do Not Track
Spurred by the success of its Web-based Do Not Track software that hides users from the eyes of third parties, Mozilla is working hard to create a mobile version. The Open Web Devices Platform, codenamed Boot to Gecko, will serve as an alternate OS to Android. So far, to try it out, users must root their phones and tinker around a bit

PCWORLD
Mobile Malware: Beware Drive-by Downloads On Your Smartphone
Drive-by downloads, or the sneaky installation of malware on a computer without the user?s knowledge, are well-known by security-savvy users. But even pros can get caught by malware that mimics ordinary functions of the phone, such as messaging or incoming call notifications

MSNBC
Cracks Appear In Face Of Apple's iOS Security
Android gets all the notoriety for its exploitable loopholes, but iOS might not be quite as secure as people think. So far, some say, iOS has been spared because Android is the low-hanging fruit. Many predict that successful attacks will increase, worsened by Apple?s unofficial policy of scapegoating individual developers or employees

ITWEB
Scope, Not Technology, The Game-Changer For Mobile Security
Charl van der Walt, co-founder and managing director of SensePost believes that, in the mobile world, it is less an issue of technology that affects security and more an issue of the staggering variety of connectivity and platforms. In a decentralized heterogeneous environment, responsibility for patching and security updates is blurred.

PCWORLD
Symantec Details Mobile Device Management Plans
Symantec has acquired Nukona, a software provider for mobile device management. While Symantec already has a MDM solution, the company claims that the purchase will make it stronger in a BYOD environment

PCMAG
Lost Phone Survey Makes No Sense
The much-vaunted Lookout Mobile Security report detailing the high incidence of loss of personal cellphones might not be quite the objective study as it seems, critics say

CIO
Android Security Threats Overhyped? Not So Fast...
Quite a few pundits have claimed that the near-endless talk of Android vulnerabilities is just a ploy to sell less-than-useful security products. But the threat, while probably overstated, still deserves attention

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