By: Zuk Avraham and Rachel Ackerly Is Google abandoning their customers? A recent policy change at Google to stop producing security updates for Android 4.3 or older could jeopardize roughly 930 million Android users. This translates into about 60% of all Android users, many who would never realize they were […]
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The Real Mobile Threat Landscape
What Is a Mobile Threat? The sophistication and continuous evolution of advanced threats is a serious problem for modern enterprises. Mobile malware, malicious apps, targeted data-stealing attacks on iOS and Android devices are introducing new challenges for IT security. Like viruses and malware that can infect your PC, there are […]
Cutting through the Weekly Mobile Security Noise
Introducing Our New Blog Series: Cutting through the Weekly Mobile Security Noise The worlds of mobile and security generate news at a breakneck pace. And when you operate at the intersection of those two markets, like Zimperium, it can be overwhelming to process what’s happening on an hour-to-hour […]
DoubleDirect – Zimperium Discovers Full-Duplex ICMP Redirect Attacks in the Wild
By: Esteban Pellegrino, Zuk Avraham, Patrick Murray and Rachel Ackerly. Zimperium Mobile Security Labs have investigated during the last year a dangerous type of attack technique in the wild being exploited by attackers. Aptly named “DoubleDirect,” this attack is a type of “Man-in-the-Middle” attack (MITM) enabling an attacker to redirect […]
Welcoming Shridhar Mittal to the Z family
Earlier this year I promised big changes at Zimperium. We announced our Series A funding, launched Zimperium Mobile Threat Defense system with the World’s first Mobile IPS, and most recently made zANTI2 our award-winning mobile assessment tool completely free for community usage. Well, I’m excited to say that we have […]
JPMorgan Hacked: Wake Up Call For Enterprises to Secure Endpoints
Why $250 million didn’t protect JPMorgan from hackers… Late last month CBS Nightly News reported about a robbery at American’s biggest bank, JPMorgan. This attack was no ordinary hold-up. JP Morgan Chase fell victim to a targeted cyberattack, despite spending $250 million dollars on cybersecurity. According to the information disclosed […]
Security Limitations in Smartphones
In our previous blog post, we wrote about what’s planned for 2014. Since we’re aiming to change the world of mobile security, maybe a good place to start is to describe the security limitations on smart devices. Like a computer, right? Often, people think that mobile device security is exactly […]
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