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McAfee unveiled its 2012 Threat Predictions report, outlining the top threats for the coming year and it said the next twelve months will see increased attacks on smartphones and mobile devices. The emerging threats from 2011 also include “legal” spam, virtual currency, industrial attacks, embedded hardware, hacktivism and rogue certificates. Needless to say, the mobile…
The National Transportation Safety Board is proposing a strict ban on any type of cell phone use while driving and this may make it illegal to use your cell phone while operating a vehicle. Car crashes related to distraction were the cause of death for over 3,000 people in the United States this year, and…
Ben Rudolph of Microsoft launched an interesting campaign last night on Twitter and he is giving away five Windows Phone smartphones to five Android users with the most misfortune using Google’s mobile operating system. Users need to tweet him their ultimate story of #droidrage, a hashtag that has now gone viral. The main reason for…
Carrier IQ has come under a lot of fire about how much data its monitoring service collects, and governments are concerned about whether there are any privacy violations occurring. Manufacturers like Apple and RIM have been quick to distance themselves from the company, while others like HTC and Samsung may be liable for their involvement…
It looks like Sprint and AT&T aren’t the only ones in the U.S. using the now-infamous Carrier IQ debugging tool. The app which apparently logs a ton of user information in the name of support and quality control is also loaded up on a bunch of T-Mobile phones, including: HTC Amaze 4G Samsung Galaxy S…
MobileIron, the company that raised some $16 million in Series C round back in August, announced MobileIron 4.5, touting it to provide the “deepest security” on the “broadest set of Android devices,” including brand new Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones. In addition, the new security suite also offers: Encryption enforcement for data at rest – allowing…
Speculation arose last night that in addition to Android using Carrier IQ to track users’ actions, iOS also had it implemented. Today, Apple has released an official statement for clarification: “We stopped supporting Carrier IQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will remove it completely in a future software update. With any…
We’ve never really liked preinstalled apps on Android phones but now that North Carolina State University researchers have revealed a major flaw in some on-board Android apps, we hate it even more. The researchers said these vulnerabilities can allow for the sharing of your potentially sensitive information without your permission. Malicious apps could tap into…
It looks like RIM is getting a head start on those ESRB ratings coming to apps. BlackBerry App World will soon have a system in place so devs can mark their creations as appropriate for general, teen, mature, or adult audiences. By default, apps will get a G rating, while a variety that fit a…
RIM had a short webcast today to talk about their new BlackBerry Mobile Fusion enterprise product, which will support Android and iOS devices, on top of their own next-gen BBX products. One nice little tidbit to emerge from the webcast that we didn’t hear anything about in this morning’s press release was support for a…