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There’s a new security vulnerability in the Android world. This one focuses on fake SMS messages that can trick you into sharing information. An associate professor at NC State University, came across this while working on a research project focused on smartphones. Basically, any nefarious application could display a SMS notification on the device and [...]
There are settings that should be backed up to the cloud and there are settings that should not be backed up. With Android, it’s all or nothing, and the worst part is that you don’t know what “all” contains. On Android, if you look under Settings / Privacy, you’ll find an option called “Backup my [...]
A new report form Bernd Marienfeldt exposes a large security vulnerability in the way the iPhone secures your personal data. Oh, and if you have enabled a PIN prompt on your iPhone to help protect your device if it was to be lost or stolen, it won’t prevent prying eyes from accessing your data. Unlike [...]
Back when Microsoft first released their first Windows Mobile Smartphone based device, they also introduced an application lock that was not found on existing Windows Mobile Pocket PC based devices. This application lock introduced a new level of security that prevents unprivileged applications from accessing certain system functions, files, and registry locations. During some recent [...]
Now that we know about Application Lock and the general principles behind it, we need to look at how to remove it from our phone so that you can install any application and make more customizations to your device. Using an XML Provisioning file, you can load and change a number of settings, more commonly [...]
Touch screen or no touch screen. There’s more differences between Windows Mobile Standard and Professional than the touch capability of the screen. Application security is one of the major differences. When you install software on Professional based devices, the most you are asked is if you trust this unsigned application. If you say yes, then [...]
The week-old Android operating system that powers T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone is off to a rough start as a team of experts from ISE have identified and successfully exploited a security vulnerability on the device. The vulnerability is located in one of the 80 open source packages assembled by Google for Android. Further, the vulnerability is [...]
It seems that Apple is having a fair amount of problems when it comes to security on their iPhone devices. At the end of September they released an update addressing 10 different security issues and now word comes out about a couple more issues that Apple has been aware of for a couple months, but [...]
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