SMobile’s ContactCrypt brings additional security to your iPhone data

Security company SMobile has a new application in the AppStore called ContactCrypt, designed to protect iPhone users’ “sensitive core components,” including personal and business contact information. I’m not sure how this exactly works, hence I’m bringing you the excerpt from the press release:

SMobile Systems’ ContactCrypt 1.6 is now available on the iTunes App Store. The software application is built to encrypt sensitive personal and business data including contact names, home addresses, account numbers, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and other critical data stored in the Contacts section of the iPhone. While other iPhone App Store encryption applications simply provide a vault mechanism to store user passwords, ContactCrypt is the first, third-party security application on the App Store to specifically protect and encrypt core components of the iPhone operating system itself. With the recent release of iPhone encryption for 3GS devices proven to be easily bypassed by numerous security experts, the release of ContactCrypt has become all the more critical.

In addition to ContactCrypt, SMobile also released a detailed forensic analysis of iPhone 3GS encryption, which is available from their website.