{"id":50785,"date":"2012-05-23T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=50785"},"modified":"2012-05-23T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T07:02:03","slug":"warning-mobile-banking-app-users-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/50785-warning-mobile-banking-app-users-beware.html","title":{"rendered":"Warning: mobile banking app users beware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Mobile security is a serious field, and users need to wake up and protect themselves, according to a security expert who advises organisations including Toyota, Merrill Lynch and the Bulgarian government.<\/p>\n<p>Neal O\u2019Farrell, executive director of the non-profit Identity Theft Council raised the issue of mobile security at a business event in San Francisco this week.<\/p>\n<p>He noted, \u201cThere were more data breaches than U.S. residents last year and more cases of identity theft than just about all other crimes combined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Farrell continued, saying that, unless users encrypt their mobile devices, they are asking for trouble.<\/p>\n<p>He also touched on the topic of mobile banking apps, saying \u201cEight out of ten mobile banking apps have security flaws, but <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> and the banks don\u2019t want you to know that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll wait another 20 years to stick my toe in that pond,\u201d he finished.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/05\/22\/mobile-banking-security-flaws-ios\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of mobile banking apps may have serious security flaws<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":46546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,9437,11921,11919],"class_list":["post-50785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-merrill-lynch","tag-neal-ofarrell","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50787,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50785\/revisions\/50787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}