A Department of Homeland Security-funded product designed to better protect mobile-phone users from phishing is becoming available to government and private-sector clients, the department said Thursday. DHS’s Science and Technology Directorate, which partially funded the tools made by mobile security company Lookout, hailed the product’s ability to block phishing attempts and detect malware lurking in mobile applications. The beefed-up product, Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security, is now available for Android and iOS operating systems, the department said. Phishing offers hackers a cheap and easy foothold into a network by exploiting people’s trust in the internet. The rate at which victims are falling for phishing attacks on mobile devices has grown an average of 85 percent annually since 2011, according to a study by Lookout, which is based in San Francisco. DHS is trying to lessen the threat to mobile users, including those in government, by investing in Lookout’s technology, which the department said inspects all outbound network […]
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