Deutsche Telekom and Intel are looking to digital "honey pots" to help customers develop rapid response sensors to cyber-attacks.

Vodafone Group CTO Steve Pusey is joining security company FireEye as a director, as he gears up to leave the UK-based operator.

F-Secure will offer real-time multi-device security to Telecom Italia's customers, as the operator looks to cope with the growing threats to smartphones and tablets.

The move towards virtualised networks, which has been exciting the industry during the past 12 months, has one unexpected downside; it could be more vulnerable to threats.

SRD Wireless has built what it has described as the first secure messaging app that is resistant to attacks from quantum computing.

Silent Circle has "substantially rewritten" its iOS messaging app, offering the ability to send secure messages to those who do not use it.

More than 99 percent of new mobile threats in the first three months of 2014 targeted the Android ecosystem, a new survey has revealed, with the UK experiencing the most attacks.

Digital security software company Gemalto and French telecom provider SFR have joined forces to provide a Cloud-based authentication solution for businesses.

The OpenSSL Project has boosted its funding by fivefold following a donation by Nokia Solutions and Networks to help stop the recurrence of bugs such as Heartbleed.

Revelations about NSA hacking, the increasingly sophisticated level of threats to smartphones and the growing number of people using their own devices at work has led the mobile device security market to grow by 40 percent to €937 million, according to new research. 

HTC is working on updating its security settings after new research found a number of its smartphones are at risk from the Heartbleed security flaw.

IBM has patented an encrypted cloud security product that allows app developers to securely send and receive notifications from mobile devices.

UK operators EE, O2, Vodafone and Three have deployed the GSMA's Spam Reporting Service to deal with spam messages and threats.

Rohde & Schwarz has completed its takeover of firewall producer Adyton Systems as it looks to boost its presence in the network security market. 

A SIM-based authentication service from Orange and SAP’s beefed-up product to protect mobile messaging were among the big announcements in the security space at last week's Mobile World Congress.

Mobile Connect is Orange's new method of letting consumers log into any digital service, regardless of the device or the connection used, using a personal code or click-validation process. 

Operators are stepping up spending on security gateway solutions designed to combat SMS/MMS spam and threats, according to new research.

For the full year 2013, the global SMS/MMS security gateway market is projected to reach €51 million – a 70 percent increase over 2012 – Infonetics Research revealed.

Deutsche Telekom has been working with Samsung to develop a high-security smartphone based on the Samsung Galaxy S3, featuring the world’s first secure mobile OS kernel that is able to protect confidential documents.

DT’s SiMKo 3, known as the “Merkel phone” after the German Chancellor, incorporates the L4 high-security microkernel and has just passed thorough testing by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

By Mary-Ann Russon

Researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in the Google Android mobile operating system that could affect every single Android smartphone that has been released since Android 1.6 “Donut” debuted in 2009, i.e. 900 million Android smartphones.

The bug allows a hacker to modify the Android APK code without breaking a mobile application’s cryptographic signature (used by Android to determine whether or not apps have been tampered with), meaning that any application can be turned into a Trojan without being noticed by the app store, user or the phone.