It used to happen all the time. People actually carried a work phone and a personal phone. There used to be a real cost to how companies and their employees used their digital devices. Now, with inexpensive and unlimited use cellular plans, the financial concerns of using a personal device for work have gone by … Read More
First in a series of four blogs on mobile device security Mobile devices – used today for everything from corporate and personal email access to tools used for company production – are very powerful computers. In fact, over the past several years, the rate of accessing the Internet via mobile devices has increased dramatically versus laptop and … Read More
Nicolás Chiaraviglio (@chiconara) We recently blogged about attacks perpetrated at WiFi networks in Barcelona before and during the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC). We found an astonishing amount: estimating more than 7,000 threats in less than four days. Furthermore, 25 percent of those threats were detected in hotels, and of those, 70 percent were at 5 Star Hotels. … Read More
Nicolás Chiaraviglio (@chiconara) (This post is a follow up of an earlier blog post) Last week, we released a blog warning about how hackers leverage massive events like the Mobile World Congress (MWC) to attack high profile corporates to steal company data. We showed the network attacks we detected last year in Barcelona, which we used to create … Read More
