Google will deploy fixes for Android SMS bug soon
Android users who thought they fat-fingered a text message to the wrong person may be able to lay the blame with Google developers.
Jeremy Kirk | 07 Jan | Read more
Android users who thought they fat-fingered a text message to the wrong person may be able to lay the blame with Google developers.
Jeremy Kirk | 07 Jan | Read more
Jailbreaking a smartphone means fiddling with its OS so you can load the applications of your choice, bypassing the requirement to download digitally signed apps only from, say, Apple’s iTunes App Store. Opinions tend to be binary: Either jailbreaking is an unalloyed act of end user liberation and empowerment, or it’s the Digital Apocalypse.
That pesky PDF distiller in Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) BlackBerry Attachment Service has yet again been identified as a security risk, and RIM has issued another "interim security update" to patch the vulnerability.
Three developers have released software that allows Windows Phone 7 users to "sideload" applications onto their phones, giving access to applications that have not been approved by Microsoft.
Nancy Gohring | 30 Nov | Read more
Many businesses will not be able to support Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system, which began shipping in the U.S. today. Like the competing Google Android, Windows Phone 7 does not support on-device encryption to protect data stored on it. Many businesses require such encryption to be able to access corporate data through EAS (Exchange ActiveSync) policies and automatically block connections from devices that don't support device-level encryption.
Galen Gruman | 09 Nov | Read more
The recent Supreme Court decision in the case City of Ontario v. Quon provides guidance on how CIOs must approach data privacy when managing company-provided mobile devices.
Matt Karlyn and Peter McLaughlin | 20 Oct | Read more
Smartphone exploits are coming, as cybercriminals start to figure out how to make money by hacking mobile devices, two mobile security experts said Tuesday.
Grant Gross | 06 Oct | Read more
A 24-year-old law setting the rules on how law enforcement agencies can obtain electronic records needs to be updated because it's out of step with modern technology and privacy expectations, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy said Wednesday.
Grant Gross | 23 Sep | Read more
By 2014, about 12 per cent of all e-commerce transactions will be made using smartphones and other mobile devices, but fraud detection tools for mobile commerce are lagging, Gartner said today.
Matt Hamblen | 21 Sep | Read more
Verizon Wireless today announced that Android smartphones using its network can now use Good Technology's security and management software.
Matt Hamblen | 17 Sep | Read more
A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday.
Martyn Williams | 08 Sep | Read more
Researchers at Russian security company Kaspersky Lab say they've discovered the first malicious software program to target Google's Android mobile operating system.
Jeremy Kirk | 12 Aug | Read more
Russian password-cracking company Elcomsoft has released new software that can in some instances figure out the password used to encrypt backed-up iPhone data.
Jeremy Kirk | 06 Aug | Read more
The GSM technology used by the majority of the world's mobile phones will get some scrutiny at next week's Black Hat security conference, and what the security researchers there have to say isn't pretty.
Robert McMillan | 22 Jul | Read more
Research in Motion (RIM) Wednesday padded the latest version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server software with new security features designed to accommodate the growing use BlackBerry devices in corporate settings.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 Jul | Read more