Tag: mobile phone security

Mobile biometrics is a technology used to measure and analyze human body characteristics to authenticate the access to and use of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and phablets. Biometrics is widely used for authentication purposes as it provides an extra layer of security, reducing the chances of forgery. It involves the verification and identification of physiological traits, such as fingerprint recognition, facial recognition, DNA, palm print, hand geometry, iris scan, retina scan, and behavioral traits, such as keystroke patterns and speech pattern/voice recognition.

Global Mobile Biometrics market to grow at a CAGR of 128.4% over the period 2014-2019.

Covered in this Report

This report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the Global Mobile Biometrics market for the period 2015-2019. To calculate the market size, the report considers revenue generated from the sales of mobile biometric solutions.

The report also provides detailed analysis of various biometrics technologies such as:

Fingerprint recognition
Voice recognition
Facial recognition

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The report consolidates the revenues generated from the following major end-users:

Enterprise users
Individual consumers

Further, the report provides detailed analysis of biometric applications such as:

Access control
Mobile payment
Authentication

It presents the vendor landscape and a corresponding detailed analysis of the top four vendors in the market. In addition, the report discusses the major drivers that influence the growth of the Global Mobile Biometrics market. It also outlines the challenges faced by vendors and the market at large, as well as key trends emerging in the market.

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Key Regions

APAC
Europe
Latin America
MEA
North America

Key Vendors

3M Cogent
Apple
Fujitsu
NEC

Other Prominent Vendors

BioEnable Technologies
ImageWare Systems
M2SYS
Mobbeel
Precise Biometrics
SIC Biometrics

A recent investigation from NCC Group has revealed that these applications are vulnerable to being hacked.

Researchers from NCC Group have now completed an investigation that has revealed that there could be greater mobile security concerns associated with parking meter apps than most users likely realize.

The researchers explained that many of these mobile apps are open to cyber attacks from hackers.

Companies using mobile apps to allow people to pay for their parking in the United Kingdom have been doing so in order to offer additional convenience through this alternative method. However, according to this research, the people who are using these apps may also be increasing their risk of mobile security problems. This typically affects people who have smartphones based on the Apple and Android operating systems.

It was the mobile security of the Android applications that underwent the majority of the investigation by NCC.

The researchers looked into the various kinds of security vulnerabilities that can impact these specific kinds of mobile apps. They wanted to look into those applications as a whole opposed to examining individual apps and labeling them as somehow different than the rest. Therefore, they did not name the specific apps that were studied in the report. Instead, they published their results in general with regards to the paid parking apps in general.

The assessment of the security of these apps was focused on the amount of attack surface that was available on Android based smartphones, including the vendor’s APK and any data that would be stored on the mobile device because of the interactions with the online support servers. At the same time, throughout this research, there was no time at which investigations were made into problems that could result from manipulating data sent to the server. Therefore, this research did not represent the same level of results that would have been achieved if the apps had undergone thorough penetration testing.

The mobile security conclusion of the team at NCC was that almost all the applications they investigated had been “affected by security vulnerabilities – some more serious than others.” They pointed out that their cryptographic implementation mediocrity was among the most common trends from one to the next.