MyMobiSafe.com Suggests Cell Phone Problems Could Be Viral
Blog Crashes, unstable or slower-than-usual performance, quick battery consumption, incorrect or skyrocketing mobile phone bills, a dramatic increase in messaging charges—any of these could be a virus. Check out the great mobile security article by...
[November 9, 2007, 19:09]
Mobile Threats Rise as Global Markets Fall
Blog This figure marks a significant year-over-year growth trend within the UK multimedia messaging (MMS) market. As many studies demonstrate, security spending is one of the first commercial cost centers to get cut in uncertain economic times.
[December 18, 2008, 2:06]
Mobile Encryption is not Enough
Blog This is because applications use data in RAM rather than in plain, decrypted form; so nothing prevents users from deliberately or accidentally sending plain data to an external destination from within an opened network application like email, web...
[October 19, 2009, 9:43]
Well now we know what the new Skype CEO does all day long with his head ***
Blog This, in fact, is true for all forms of communication such as emails, fixed and mobile phone calls, and instant messaging between people within China and between China and other countries. We also learned yesterday about the existence of a security...
[October 6, 2008, 8:03]
More on Skype Pornography - Genius?
Blog The Skype Cheerleading Squad (also known as the Skype Journal) has a lead article today on the "Evil Genius" behind the "Sexy SPIM for Skype" (SPIM = Spam over Instant Messaging), replete with numerous pictures of exactly the type that you wouldn...
[March 7, 2008, 13:03]
What Is the Threat: Truth About Cell Phone Security
Blog The greatest points of vulnerability that one faces without a mobile security solution are the text messaging, Bluetooth, and increasingly in a number of newer handsets Wi-Fi. What Is the Threat: Truth About Cell Phone Security
[August 6, 2007, 14:21]
Lockdown & Markdown
Blog No Instant Messaging Not surprisingly the security policy is very strict: My current contract is at a top-secret governmental organisation (just one more contract job, then I'll move out to the country, try my hand at some remote working and other...
[May 9, 2008, 11:32]
Tough Enough: Sybase Breakthrough Handheld Security?
Blog I am not trying to discredit the new Sybase suite as I think it adds a layer of protection that is much needed throughout enterprise messaging. Tough Enough: Sybase Breakthrough Handheld Security? This month many may have noticed that Sybase...
[March 11, 2008, 1:45]
iPhone Goes Third-Party: Security Over Functionality?
Blog As Arrington pointed out, this creates significant issues for traditional background applications such as instant messaging applications. iPhone Goes Third-Party: Security Over Functionality? It’s been a few days since the iPhone SDK release, so as...
[March 8, 2008, 15:34]
Mobile Virus ACE-? - Is The Hoax That The Hoax Is The Hoax?
Blog A jacking script is written to be sent via text messaging (SMS) to a mobile handset where it will attempt to retrieved specific data metrics (like a contact list) and send them back to a central server.
[June 8, 2007, 19:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It strikes me, as I schlep the press releases, Powerpoint presentation and obligatory freebie pen back to the office, that instant messaging's got a lot to answer for. Yet another security headache nobody's quite got around to thinking through.
[July 20, 2001, 16:41]
Disappearing comments and blog posts
Blog And if you're looking at a blog, why not drop the author a note via our internal messaging system? They should also be valuable -- so a post with just a URL may be removed -- and security is also a factor in this.
[September 28, 2009, 17:46]
What Sony Ericsson's up to: Part II
Blog Basically, it lets you invite someone into a data session, like instant messaging or photo sharing, even if they're not online on their phone. And you don't have to pair the devices, because the necessary proximity provides the security.
[September 25, 2008, 0:25]
Virtual Teams: Small Business Innovation
Blog We stretch tools like instant messaging, web meetings, VOIP, remote storage, and email to their limits. When I was looking for the right team members, I had to look far and wide as mobile security as a new technology had very few resources.
[October 2, 2008, 18:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A friend is busy testing Wildfire, a voice-driven call handling and messaging system that works over the phone. Our security services were joined at the hip over intelligence issues (Enigma, Magic and all that) with an agreement referred to as UKUSA.
[February 19, 1999, 19:18]
Nokia E71 firmware update fixes camera
Blog G power reduction for applications using keep-alive style messaging Messaging Security updates I installed it this afternoon, of course taking care to back everything up first so I could do a simple restoration afterwards (some people are...
[January 13, 2009, 16:31]
