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Symbian Trojan concerns mount
News The recent discovery of a large number of malicious mobile phone programs should raise concerns throughout the wireless industry, according to a virus tracker. Mobile phone antivirus software company SimWorks reported Wednesday that 52 new Trojan...
[April 21, 2005, 9:20]
ARM sees strong demand for multimedia phones, Bluetooth
News This could be the year that a mass market for advanced mobile phone handsets begins to appear in Europe, according to UK chip designer ARM Holdings. Since 11 September, interest in security has increased across the board, with particular emphasis...
[January 28, 2002, 17:36]
Internet fridges: Virus magnets?
News Mobile phone) manufacturers have a lot of experience in making very secure operating systems so they will not meet the third criteria and should be able to stop any viruses," said Kaspersky said in an interview with ZDNet UK.
[July 12, 2002, 14:54]
'Physical dimension' of net raises security concerns
News Many people are reluctant to carry tokens for authentication, Juels said, so the labs are working on technologies to allow the Wi-Fi in a mobile-phone handset to be used to transmit a passcode directly to a PC to authenticate the user or transaction.
[April 28, 2009, 15:14]
Application virtualisation comes to smartphones
News At VMware's annual user conference in San Francisco, the company's director of product management and market development, Srinivas Krishnamurti, demonstrated running an application built for Android on a Windows mobile phone.
[September 3, 2009, 10:45]
Mobile Banking Safe? Not So Much… Happy Valentines?
Blog If you are a small business owner or just another cell phone user, stay alert! As a lead researcher and mobile security expert at MyMobiSafe, let me just say for the record that mobile banking is not secure.
[February 16, 2009, 14:20]
WinMo Handsets Get Facebook: Shhh Don’t Tell Your Boss!
Blog Third party mobile applications are sprouting up all over the place, which means that cell phone users must continue to be weary of what kind of content they are downloading. For those who enjoy the mobile lifestyle that cell phones afford, the...
[July 8, 2008, 3:33]
Innovative tech at Cambridge open day
News This is a security system that can tell homeowners via text message, email or phone call if their burglar or smoke alarms have been triggered. The mobile-phone application — called CapturaTalk — is a product from Cambridge company Iansyst.
[September 7, 2007, 17:32]
Google Android: Mobile Open Source Door Kicked Open
Blog As the Android SDK will make the debut well before the Google Phone, Google may want to consider the acquisition of a mobile security provider too. Your friend and mobile security expert, The issues regarding the handset level security...
[November 5, 2007, 22:23]
Researcher warns of Android phone vulnerability
News Media libraries are extremely complex and can lead to bugs, so we designed our mediaserver, which uses OpenCore, to work within its own application sandbox so that security issues in the mediaserver would not affect other applications on the phone...
[February 13, 2009, 8:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It shows that any illusion of security we may have concerning our mobile phones is a flimsy fantasy: mine now says "ASSUME THIS PHONE IS TAPPED" as its welcome message when I power it up. Meanwhile, there's been a hint from certain quarters that...
[February 10, 2006, 16:50]
Should mobile developers look East for ARPU inspiration?
Blog Comment Even the phone companies good intentions of offering Micropayment services so that you could buy 'stuff' and get billed by your mobile operator, has anyone seen this come to fruition. I think the short answer is that for mobile applications, the...
[January 7, 2009, 16:04]
Bus tickets go mobile
News By texting "txt2go" to the number 60060, a passenger can receive a digital ticket on their mobile phone minutes later. The phone screen displaying the ticket information is then shown to the driver when boarding the bus.
[January 7, 2008, 15:31]
AT&T Driving Mobile Open Source Into The New Year
Blog The move towards open source bodes well for cell phone users and third-party developers alike. Sure, there will be security concerns along that way (which is where we come in), but collectively open source in mobile is like industry deregulation on...
[January 3, 2008, 23:36]
Windows Mobile 6.5: a first look review
Reviews My Phone service My Phone is a free service that allows you to back up your phone's information to a password-protected web service. In addition, My Phone lets you automatically upload photos and videos straight from your phone to the service.
[February 17, 2009, 7:59]
Ten reasons open-source smart phones will not win out
Blog The very foundation of the Pre and the Android phone is Linux-based, so they will enjoy a more fundamentally sound level of security than, say, any of the Windows Mobile phones available. And although mobile-phone security has yet to become a...
[July 23, 2009, 17:32]
Tablet PCs to catch on slowly, says Gartner
News Microsoft's director of marketing for the EMEA mobile devices group, Robbie Wright, smiled through a series of demo gremlins to score some direct sales points for the tablet PC later in the day, with a hands-on demonstration of Microsoft's four...
[November 6, 2002, 9:03]
Financial collapse & debunking electronic banking myths
Blog How about if I wanted to pay from my mobile phone even? Not only is online banking as safe as houses, but mobile banking (so the vendors would have us believe) has reached hitherto unheard of levels of security.
[October 10, 2008, 8:24]
Home Office steps up mobile fraud measures
News The Home Office has announced the move as part of a series of measures agreed with the mobile phone and banking industries to cut the potential for crime created by new near-field communication (NFC) technology.
[August 28, 2009, 12:44]
RSA pushes usability in security
News RSA Security now has the same user interface on its ClearTrust and RSA mobile products (RSA mobile sends a one-time authentication code to the user's mobile phone) so administrators will find it easier to handle both.
[October 9, 2002, 9:31]
