As more consumers pivot away from desktop PCs toward mobile devices, security companies have followed suit. Recently re-tooled and re-launched, Symantec's Norton Security Antivirus Premium (free, ...

Early Tuesday morning Norton announced results of a Strategy One survey conducted last September that suggest one in three U.S. citizens have had their cell phones lost or stolen. Digging into the ...

Mobile phones could soon take on the persona of car alarms thanks to security software for Android from Norton by Symantec. Norton announced on Wednesday the availability of Norton Tablet Security and ...

Android only: We're fans of using Prey to find lost Androids (and laptops), but if you want a last-resort means of locking or wiping out your smartphone, Norton's free (for now) beta app offers those ...

Norton has been an industry leader in home cybersecurity for decades, now it looks out for you out of home too. When most people talk about antivirus and threat protection however, they’re usually ...

Somewhere deep inside Symantec, there’s a humming farm of virtual machines whose sole purpose is to crawl 200-plus Android app stores worldwide, download about 10,000 new apps every day, and scan each ...

Android is on track to surpass one billion users across all devices in 2014, says the Gartner research and consulting group, but a boost in market share often invites more malware ("malicious software ...

The Norton Mobile Utilities beta for Android is a useful but somewhat buggy suite of free tools that any self-respecting Android geek will want to download and test. To a certain extent, it’s a proof ...

Anti-Theft Features While mobile malware is a rising threat, the most immediate danger for consumers is loss and theft. With malware detection rates clustered so high in the upper 90 percent, features ...

Late last week, the independent German testing lab AV-Test announced the results of their six-month long Android security app stress test. While the results presented a strong across-the-board showing ...

Security software makers McAfee and Norton recently added features to their Android apps designed to help users control who can interact with the sensitive information on their smartphones and tablets ...