Smartphone Security

US Border Searches and Protesting in the Surveillance Age
Planning to travel to the United States? This episode covers recent travel advisories regarding US border agents searching electronic devices, regardless of your citizenship status. Learn essential tips on smartphone security and ...
Alert: Pixel Phones’ Exploited Android Zero-Day Flaw Patched
In the realm of smartphone security, the recent spotlight has fallen on Google Pixel devices, where two zero-day vulnerabilities have been unearthed and promptly addressed by Google. As per recent reports, the ...

A quick update on 2019 mobile predictions made in January.
So far this year, the surreptitious capture of audio and visual data via smartphone cameras and microphones has negatively impacted the world’s richest person and a beloved trillion-dollar company. It’s safe to ...

How Apple Shapes the Narrative About Smartphone Security
In August, we conducted our annual survey designed to gauge attitudes about mobile security and privacy. In looking behind this year’s numbers, I was struck by how shifting perspectives seem to mirror ...

The Piece of Hardware at the Cutting Edge of Cybersecurity
By John Chambers, Founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures and former CEO and Chairman of Cisco As a mentor, investor, and longtime player in the tech industry, I’m frequently asked which market ...

6 Bold Predictions for Smartphone Surveillance in 2019
In the last 12 months, the threat of compromised smartphone cameras and microphones has taken on bigger real estate in the public consciousness, transforming from a largely abstract fear into a real, ...

Why Does the World Need a SafeCase?
We started Privoro in 2013 not merely as a company, but as a philosophy: that security and privacy need not be casualties of our hyper-connected, sensor-driven, mobile-first world. That we should be ...

Voice is the Next Interface, But What Does That Mean for Mobile Security?
By John Chambers, Founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures and former CEO and Chairman of Cisco Ten years ago, I would have said that voice was an interface of the past. Yet ...