Kindsight News in 2012

Item Publication Date

How to make Android faster, more productive and more secure than iPhone

…We would also like to see carriers adopt network-based mobile malware scanning, such as the solution from Kindsight Security Labs.

CIO, Computerworld, NetworkWorld, PCWorld
05/14/2012

13 Percent of Homes With Broadband Infected With Malware

In the first three months of 2012, an average of 13 percent of North American homes with broadband Internet connections showed evidence of computer malware infection, the security firm Kindsight said.

MSNBC, SecurityNewsDaily
05/10/2012

Changing Nature of Threats Affects Home and Office

I see a lot of quarterly threat reports over the course of the year, and most of them primarily warn against the same threats and concerns. But Kindsight’s first quarter threat report had a few things that caught my eye.

IT Business Edge
05/10/2012

Kindsight Security Labs Releases Q1 2012 Malware Report

Today Kindsight release the Kindsight Security Labs Malware Report for Q1 2012. The quarterly report reveals statistics and security trends for malware infections in home networks and mobile devices.

Kindsight News Release
05/09/2012

DHS Appeals to Users Still Infected with DNSChanger

…A Kindsight Security Lab malware report released today for Q1 ranked DNSChanger as the most prevalent high-level infection with 1 in 400 households still infected.

Threatpost
05/09/2012

Flashback malware infections drop to 30,000 Macs

Further analysis of the threat by security firm Kindsight has suggested that up to 1 in every 15 households with Macs in the U.S. may have been affected by this malware.

CNET
04/19/2012

Reality Check: Protecting the mobile network and devices

Despite the increases in today’s mobile malware, many mobile operators and subscribers continue to be virtually blind to the full extent of the problem – they simply react to incidents as they occur and have no proactive processes in place to address malware.

RCR Wireless
04/17/2012

RSA News [Registration required]

To test this, we took a copy of that application and within 15 minutes injected it with malicious processes that would be hidden in the background while the game actually played,” says Kevin McNamee, director of security architecture for Kindsight, a mobile security company.

MyIDMatters
04/09/2012

Reality Check: Why Is Android vulnerable

Android devices are clearly the target of mobile malware with a 400% increase in Android infections in the latter part of 2011. So why is the Android platform so vulnerable?

RCR Wireless
03/20/2012

RSA 2012: 11 Security Products You May Have Missed

Kindsight introduced mobile security for networks and devices. The platform, aimed at mobile operators, combines network-based malware detection with a mobile device security app that scans for malicious software before it is installed.

CRN
03/05/2012

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