By Sebnem Ragiboglu
In this article, content creator Peter Davidson discusses how mobile apps are making a difference in the election process. Mobile Apps – If you are not living under the rocks, you would have been familiar with these two words. In fact, you might be reading this blog on your smartphone using some blogging or other mobile apps. These mobility solutions have entered every space and dimension of the economy and delivered impressive solutions to the prevailing challenges. They have proven to be the core element of every business vertical and process. But, can we say the same for the election process too?
By Louis Columbus
On average, there are 82 new rogue applications submitted per day to any given AppExchange or application platform, all designed to defraud consumers. Mobile and digital commerce are cybercriminals’ favorite attack surfaces because they are succeeding with a broad base of strategies for defrauding people and businesses. Phishing, malware, smishing, or the use of SMS texts rather than email to launch phishing attempts are succeeding in gaining access to victims’ account credentials, credit card numbers, and personal information to launch identity theft breaches. The RSA is seeing an arms race between cybercriminals and mobile OS providers with criminals improving their malware to stay at parity or leapfrog new versions and security patches of mobile operating systems.
