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Are These Malicious Google Play Applications Still On Your Smartphone? | Updated June 2019
In 2017, Google enhanced its threat detection technology to reduce the amount of malicious applications on the Play Store. It resulted in the deletion of 700,000 applications over a year. However, mobile security companies like Pradeo still frequently uncover malwares on official stores.
Why Updating Mobile OS And Application Is So Important
System and application updates always seem to pop up at less than timely moments, and most of us postpone them without second thoughts, for days, weeks… However, these updates represent an essential piece of systems’ safety, as they include functionality enhancements and patches to security holes.
Monetization of mobile applications: Everything about user profiling
A free mobile application embeds an average of 6 marketing libraries which turn it into an advertising space, where targeted ads are displayed and from which user data are collected and resold. Marketing companies are usually allowed to gather all the data collected by the applications integrating their library.
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[White Paper] Mobile Banking: Regulations, Threats & Fraud Prevention
Mobile banking is a 24/7 remote service offered by banks and financial institutions to their clients. It is delivered through mobile applications and allows to monitor account balances, follow transactions, make fund transfers, etc.
Pradeo to Provide New Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning-Based Mobile Threat Defense Solution for BlackBerry Customers
Leveraging both companies’ expertise in secure mobility, Pradeo Security for BlackBerry provides BlackBerry UEM users with a 360° threat detection approach as well as real-time analysis to efficiently protect mobile endpoints. Users can access the solution at the BlackBerry Marketplace.
C-Executives, IT, sales… Which staff is the most exposed to mobile threats?
Nowadays, the vast majority of employees are using smartphones or tablets as part of their work. Those devices, whether they are corporate (COPE) or personal (BYOD), are a gateway to organizations information systems.
Mobile Security Report 2018 - Malwares, network attacks...
This report gives an insight of the mobile threats currently surrounding organizations by quantifying threats operating at the application, network and device levels. It gathers the results of a research conducted based on a sample of 2 millions mobile applications and 500,000 mobile devices.
Payment Service Directive (PSD2): What are the challenges for mobile security?
The PSD2 aims at harmonizing the protection of electronic payments and consumers' financial data while promoting innovation and offering better experience to users. It applies to banks, payment service providers (PSP) and any other company that handles banking data.
Pradeo Sheds the Light on its Unique Mobile Threat Detection Intelligence
Pradeo developed an advanced Artificial Intelligence process delivering the most accurate threat detection technology of the market. The Pradeo intelligence center has collected 100 billions of mobile security data, implemented 200.00 security rules and detected more than 1 million mobile threats.
Eurosport Official Mobile App Vulnerable to Data Leakage
While investigating applications connected to the football world cup, Pradeo’s research team found out a worrying trend: most of them are highly intrusive and vulnerable. On top of the list, there is the Eurosport app which was downloaded more than 10 million times.
Mobile Threat Defense Guide
This guide aims at addressing the core questions to be asked when planning on setting up mobile security: What are the foundations of Mobile Threat Defense? Why existing security boundaries falls short in countering mobile threats? What to expect from a MTD solution and what are the key capabilities to look for?
New Research: The Current State of Mobile Application Security
In a recent survey aiming at diagnosing companies GDPR compliance, Pradeo asked 382 security leaders about the way they develop mobile applications, the data they manipulate and the security process they go through.
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