Intel targeting security in the cloud with McAfee
Intel will use assets acquired from McAfee to provide cloud security services to protect the growing number of mobile devices that face malware and cyberattack threats.
Intel will use assets acquired from McAfee to provide cloud security services to protect the growing number of mobile devices that face malware and cyberattack threats.
Although Oracle is suing Google over the search giant's Android mobile software platform, developers at an Android developer event this week remained undaunted in backing the platform.
Last week's revelation that over 50 apps in the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/030811-android-security-apps.html">Google Android market</a> were malware-laden has shaken up Google and the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030311-security-roundup.html">security industry</a> to its core.
Seven out of 10 Android and iOS apps that contain open source "failed to comply with basic open source license requirements," according to a new analysis.
While Android is a terrific operating system in many ways, it does pose some real risks for IT departments. Last week's revelation</a>] that Google had to remove around 50 malware-infected applications from its Android Market and had activated an Android app kill switch highlighted the downside of the company's "free love" approach to publishing applications where it will let anyone put their app on the market and will only take it down if alerted by a third-party user. The upside of this, of course, is that the market also offers a wide variety of quality security applications that can protect you from malicious apps. Here are eight Android applications that can help IT departments keep a better hold on employees' Android-based devices.
From malware on Google's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a> phones to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency trying to understand how stories or narratives impact <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> and human behavior, the security world certainly is never boring. Here we take a look at 20 security stories that have shaped the industry in the past few months.
Despite the fact that his company specializes in designing device hardware, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha thinks the tablet market's future is largely out of his hands.
The Commonwealth Bank has released its NetBank mobile banking app for Android smartphones to customers.
Early users of the Motorola Xoom tablet have rendered their verdict of Google's tablet-centric operating system: Needs improvement.
Google has asked the US Patent & Trademark Office to re-examine a number of Oracle patents at issue in the companies' intellectual-property case over the use of Java in the Android mobile OS.
Do wireless service giants such as AT&T and Verizon wield their power to effectively stand in the way of mobile-device security?
We know that Apple’s mobile application subscription scheme is unpopular with publishers, but now analyst firm Forrester’s CEO is panning it too.
The battle among mobile operating systems may garner a lot of headlines, but it seems network quality is still the most important factor for smartphone users.
Just months after dismissing the importance of mobile apps, Research in Motion could be jumping aboard the app bandwagon.
IBM today unwrapped a variety of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/020311-rsa.html">mobile security initiatives</a> to help corporate customers better protect and manage the mass of intelligent devices coming to their networks.