Mobile Devices

Joe Lobianco, senior director of information security and risk management at CIBC, a major bank in Canada, breaks down the mobile application threat. He discusses security from the perspective of CIBC, which recently rolled out its mobile banking application, and delves into whether the mobile computing space will prompt the same risks as the traditional desktop environment.

A lot of threats already seen on PCs and laptops will move to mobile systems, a panelist said at SC World Congress in New York.

Bump Technologies, maker of the popular data exchange application Bump, said it has corrected a problem that could have exposed users' information.

Should organizations be concerned about hackers eavesdropping on employee conversations? One security vendor expert says "yes."

With colleges and universities back in session, campus IT departments can take a page out of the enterprise playbook to help them deal with the unique security challenges facing academia.