Most health apps engage in unhealthy data harvesting habits

Most health apps engage in unhealthy data harvesting habits. As many as 88 percent of almost 21,000 mobile health (mHealth) applications that are accessible on the Google Play Store from Australia include code that can access and even share users’ personal data with third parties, an analysis by the Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub in Sydney has found.

Protecting a mobile workforce with hybrid DNS security

Meeting the demand for greater speed and mobility means that internet traffic from mobile workers tends not to be backhauled to an organisation’s network via corporate points of presence such as servers or routers. As a result, DNS traffic to and from an organisation’s mobile users will not generally be visible to corporate security monitoring.

Pulse Secure launches new zero trust service for multi-cloud secure access

PZTA simplifies access management with single-pane-of-glass visibility, end-to-end analytics, granular policies, automated provisioning, and advanced threat mitigation that empowers organizations to further optimize their increasingly mobile workforce and hybrid IT resources.

Here’s how to boost app availability and performance for your end users

If you’re an IT professional, you are also likely on the front lines of a host of new business continuity challenges. You need to respond quickly to unprecedented changes in work schedules, remote access to applications, and spikes in networking and data demands. F5 has several recommendations that can help.

Mac users targeted to pilfer cryptocurrency from their wallets, ESET

The legitimate Kattana trading application was rebranded – including setting up copycat websites – and the malware was bundled into its installer.