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FTC Requests Info on Smart Device Security Updates

Balough May 10, 2016 0

(May 10, 2016) Smart device manufactures must explain to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) how they decide when to make security updates to address vulnerabilities in their devices. The FTC wants to more fully understand the policies, procedures, and practices for providing security updates for consumers for their smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. The […]

Finders Keepers of Your Smartphone Data

Balough December 17, 2013 0

If you lose your smartphone, you have a 50-50 chance of someone contacting you to return it—but even then the person probably has tried to access private or company data on the phone. That’s the conclusion reached in a “honey stick” experiment by Symantec that was recently released. For the experiment, 50 smartphones were “lost” in five […]