The mobile revolution offers flexible businesses a significant productivity boost, but it shouldn’t come at the expense of security. Thanks to the rise of laptops, smartphones and tablets, your business now extends far beyond the front desk. These smart gadgets let staff spend less time tied to their desks and more time on the job, [...]
At AVG (AU/NZ), we take our community’s protection seriously – so as well as providing you with great security software, we also want to keep you informed about the latest online threats and scams. We have become aware of a new mobile security threat, courtesy of our AVG Mobilation™ Research Team. The threat is a malicious application named [...]
Mobile computing is on the rise. Smaller, faster, easier – in many ways, this approach epitomises much of how we have come to regard technology in general over the past decade. The mobile phone or PDA is no longer an exclusive white collar toy, and the processing power of 4.3inches of touch-screen in our sweaty [...]
A few months ago, I had my new smartphone stolen on the train. Apart from eroding my trust in the light-fingered Melbourne public transport user base, I learnt a valuable lesson; my device was not password protected, as I found when one of my friends enquired as to why I had been posting nonsense on [...]
Today’s online Social Networking platforms are the digital age’s answer to the Saloon Bars of the Old West – a 24/7 couldron of all the news, games, gossip, rough and tumble and flirting you can handle … all available at your fingertips, from the comfort of your own home. No-one can deny the obvious advantages [...]
Companies of all shapes and sizes should be re-evaluating how they protect business-critical data and manage IT equipment use. Too few companies have policies governing how employees use smartphones and tablets. It’s time to recognise the security threats posed by these mobile devices and put in place the technology, procedures and policies to deal with [...]
Malware on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is up 273% in the first half of 2011, compared with the same period in 2010, a new study has shown. The results come from a study conducted by G Data Security Labs indicates that mobile devices and tablets are being targeted by cyber criminals more [...]
Over the past few days, questions have been asked about AVG’s most recent mobile security product, AVG Mobilation™ for Windows Phone 7. As such, we wanted to take a moment to clarify and respond to some of the questions and comments raised in social media forums. As soon as this product hit the market place, [...]
As we desire to be transparent with the users of AVG’s Windows 7 Phone security app, we’d like to outline the process that we adopt when a user installs the software. Upon installation, the “Enable Location based service” feature allows a user to locate a phone in case it is lost or stolen. This feature [...]
It’s widely accepted that working on the move can significantly boost employee productivity, but small business owners need to realise that this is not plug-and-play computing. A considered approach to who is using what kind of equipment and what “apps” your staff are downloading is needed if the device in question is going to be [...]
