Mocana IoT Security Blog

Apparently keeping tabs on your personal information via an app might leak personal information.

Government agencies looking to vet apps have a new tool from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The cross-platform instant messaging app WhatsApp, recently purchased by Facebook for $16 billion, has a vulnerability in its Android version that leaves chat histories wide open to other apps installed on the same smartphone.

A cryptographic flaw in the GnuTLS library may be a bigger eavesdropping concern than the Apple "goto fail" bug patched last week, say researchers.

If you were attending the RSA Conference this week and installed the official conference app on your smartphone, you are on a list.

The Windows Mobile phone may allow Android apps to run on both Windows and Windows Phone.

Data collected in the final quarter of 2013 by the firm Prolexic finds that applications on mobile devices within enterprises are playing a larger role in Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

IOActive recently tested 40 home banking apps from some of the most influential banks in the world and found most of them lacking in security.

This week Robert Vamosi, CISSP and Senior Analyst at Mocana, talks with Kevin Watkins, CTO at Appthority, on App Reputation. This broadcast originally aired October 18, 2013.

Make sure you keep your mobile phone close while at your neighborhood coffee shop. In the posting to SecLists.org security researcher Daniel Wood describes a vulnerability in the iOS version of the popular Starbucks app used by more then 10 million customers worldwide.