» Listen or download now on the podcasts page » Mobile apps are increasingly being used by the healthcare industry to provide customers with access to data and services. Your smartphone might even be monitoring the state of your health and sending that information to remote servers for analysis by your healthcare provider. As Stephen McCarney of Arxan Technologies explains in… Read more »
» Listen or download now on the podcasts page » Judging by the warnings issued by security vendors, you’d be forgiven for thinking that there’s a malware epidemic on the Android platform. The truth, according to Sean Newman, security evangelist at Sourcefire (now part of Cisco), is somewhat more nuanced. In this interview he explains how the number of published vulnerabilities… Read more »
With an 87% global market share, it’s no wonder that Android devices are attracting malware authors like circling vultures – much to Apple’s delight. There’s a kind of hackers’ arms race going on as they compete to plant nastier and nastier bugs on Android phones. The latest arrival is ransomware, which infects and encrypts your files then (sometimes) releases your… Read more »
» Listen or download now on the podcasts page » Silent Circle offers secure voice and text communications using peer-to-peer encryption. Until recently, it also offered secure email, but shortly after we interviewed Jon Callas, the firm’s CTO and co-founder, Silent Circle followed the lead of another secure email provider, Lavabit, and shut down that service. This was a reaction to… Read more »
Every so often a product or service comes along that offers a number of serious advantages, and the latest in that long line – for me, and anyone that travels outside of the UK on a regular basis – is Toggle Mobile. If you’ve ever used your mobile phone outside of the UK, you may have encountered the resultant `bill… Read more »
MVNOs – mobile virtual network operators – always tend to offer some of the most attractive PAYG (pay-as-you-go) deals in most countries of the world. Here in the UK, one of the most interesting offers comes from GiffGaff – a viral MVNO that offers support via an online community of elders, with back up from the MVNO’s parent, Telefonica O2…. Read more »