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98% of Mobile Apps Are Not Secure: Hidden Risks and What You Need to Know

98% of mobile apps aren’t secured against hacking threats. 75% fail even the most basic security tests, and 96% can easily be reverse engineered. Let that sink in for a moment. That means that almost all of the apps on the market today directly threaten the financial, emotional, and even physical well-being of their users. For app developers, this presents...

Mobile App Security/Mobile App Security Testing/Security Threats

7 Mobile Application Security Testing Tools

Mobile application security experts detect hundreds of threats per hour, with more than 6,000 per hour coming from China alone. Shockingly, for the first time in human history, there are now more mobile devices than there are people living on Earth. Consumers also spend 87% of their phone time using mobile apps, creating plenty of opportunities for security breaches.

Mobile App Security/Mobile App Security Testing

What is Mobile App Security?

Every industry is rapidly realizing the incredible benefits that mobile apps provide. At the same time, this realization could result in dangerous dilemmas. Mobile apps are an extremely smart and beneficial addition to your company/organization, but failing to set up security for them at the same time is the same as offering your business’s delicate material out on a silver...

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Mobile security startup Seworks raises $8.2 million from SoftBank, Qualcomm, Samsung, others

Seworks, a mobile security startup that serves to protect apps from hacks, has raised $8.2 million in a Series A round from SoftBank Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Smilegate Investment, and Wonik Investment Partners. Founded out of San Francisco in 2013 by a “globally famous” team of white-hat hackers, Seworks’ main customer-facing brand is actually AppSolid, a product that developers...

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How The Flood of Mobile Apps Pose Growing Security Threats

There’s an app for everything. From monitoring health to scanning documents, and with options to play, work, and communicate in every imaginable fashion, consumers are gobbling apps up like candy. These apps are a growing security threat to businesses, consumers, and even to app developers themselves.

Anti Hacking Software/Mobile App Security/Security Threats

How to Secure Mobile Apps Using the Best Anti-Hacking Software

Seventy-three percent of Americans have been victims of some form of cyber crime. Ninety percent of businesses fell prey to some form of hacking in the last year. Developers, consumers, and law enforcement are in a perpetual battle with cyber criminals. And the good guys are losing. Even mobile apps that appear to be secure are often more vulnerable than...

Anti Hacking Software/Mobile App Security

Why Your Mobile App May Not be as Secure as You Think

The average consumer spends nearly three hours a day on mobile devices, with 86% of that time devoted to mobile apps. This provides plenty of opportunities for security threats to attack consumers’ identities, bank accounts, and privacy. Yet less than half of app development companies security test each app they build, and 33% never test any apps at all.

Mobile App Security

9 Enterprise Mobile Security Best Practices

Mobile technology has made life infinitely more convenient in recent years, and yet, this phenomenon brings with it a set of challenges all its own. Principal among them is the heightened need for comprehensive security measures to keep users’ information and activity safe from prying eyes.