By Jayanth Jagadeesh

Are mobile apps making online banking obsolete? Statistics paint a different narrative. Today, we live in an extremely connected-world; one in which smartphones are near-ubiquitous, and access-to-internet is considered an essential-service. Almost all digitally-active individuals of the banking-population seem to own and use a smartphone.

 

By Davey Winder

The results of a newly published study of some of the world's most popular travel apps, on both Android and iOS platforms, make for grim reading if you like your privacy and security as much as you do an excellent money-saving travel deal. Researchers from mobile security solutions provider Zimperium tested 30 "best deal" travel applications, covering flights, hotels, car rental and the like, to better understand how they manage users' privacy and security risk.