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There has been a veritable parade of headlines and news stories in even the mainstream consumer press about the increasing security risk presented by smartphones – a.k.a. the small yet powerful computers that most of us carry around in our pockets.

===> Trend Micro recently released data showing that there will be more than one million malware variants in the market by the end of this year.  <===

What are the biggest apps to know about in the upcoming year? Our friends at Education Dive have assembled a useful list!

Flawed mobile apps for Facebook, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and likely others save user authentication data as easy-to-swipe plain text files...

You probably store a lot of personal and financial information on your smartphone that you would not want revealed if it is lost or stolen. Here are four ways that you can help increase mobile phone safety and secure your Windows Phone or other smartphone.

Protect your phone with a password or Personal Identification Number (PIN). If you use your phone to access your company's email or intranet, they probably require that you protect it with a password or PIN.

To learn how to protect your Windows 7 phone with a password, see Lock screen FAQ.

Just as U.S. companies are coming to grips with the threats to their computer networks emanating from cyber spies based in China, a noted expert is highlighting what he says is an even more pernicious vulnerability in smartphones.

L’iPhone 5S a été mis à mal par une équipe de Corée du Sud, qui a réussi à profiter d'une combinaison de deux bugs dans Safari pour en prendre le contrôle. Le Samsung Galaxy S5 non plus n'a pas réisté aux assauts des hackers. Deux équipes ont profité de failles dans la gestion du protocole NFC pour en prendre le contrôle. le Nexus 5 a lui aussi été piraté via NFC, grâce à une technique étonnante, qui a consisté à forcer un appairage Bluetooth entre deux appareils.

Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French...

Who has had some success with classroom tablet integration? iPads, Android, and Windows tablets are in use right now. Here's more info.

Corporate espionage has never been so easy. See how a simple app can transform your smartphone into an espionage tool in the hands of criminals, able to record your conversations, steal your text messages and spy on your private meetings.

Gust MEES: watch the video who explains in detail; very well explained...

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13015

Check out also the available security tools :

http://www.scoop.it/t/ict-security-tools?q=mobile

A Sunday Times report found that many smartphone apps are collecting too much personal data and then sending it outside the EU to the US, Israel, China and India.

===> But do these countries meet EU data protection standards? <===

Wondering how to start introducing elements of mLearning (mobile learning) into your language classes?

Here are five ways to do so, starting from simple recognition type activities to more complex project work...