Market for securing mobile devices yet to take off
The market for software to protect mobile devices such as smartphones has yet to take off despite brisk sales of devices such as Research in Motion Ltd’s BlackBerry and Apple Inc’s iPhone.Symantec Corp Chief Operating Officer Enrique Salem estimates that it is currently worth a few hundred million dollars a year.
“It is growing. But given [...]
Skype flaw turns videos into weapons
A programming error in eBay’s Skype communications software could give cyber-criminals a new way to sneak their malicious software onto a victim’s PC.
The flaw, which was reported Thursday by security researcher Aviv Raff, has to do with the way that Skype makes use of a Windows [...]