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Ah, yes. Black Friday – a special holiday in which we all get up early to go out and lose a little bit of dignity – is just around the corner! To keep that tradition going strong, shopping malls don’t want just your money this year, they also want to know your exact whereabouts. Promenade…
Google’s Android is essentially open and that offers a lot of choice in form factor, carrier, handset maker and it even led to things like the Kindle Fire but that openness also comes with a downside, as McAfee’s latest mobile security report says that nearly all the new instances of mobile malware it saw in…
A report from Juniper Global Threat Center has juicy information on those cool, “open” Android devices. It turns out having a smartphone with an open platform such as Android isn’t as beneficial as you may have first thought. From 2009 to 2010, malware on Android increased 400 percent, and that’s not even the worst news.…
Remember that cool “face unlock” feature in Android Ice Cream Sandwich Google unveiled at its Galaxy Nexus launch event in Hong Kong? Well, to no one’s surprise, the feature isn’t all that secure after all. The way this thing is suppose to work is users set their phone to recognize their face, when done they…
Charlie Miller cleverly identified a unique security flaw in iOS recently and it cost him his membership to the iOS Developer Program. Miller is an iOS security researcher and he created an app called InstaStock and submitted it into the App Store in September. On the surface, it allowed users to track their stocks, but…
Yeah I know, the iPhone is way more secure than Android due to Apple’s restrictive AppStore policy. The Cupertino-based company doesn’t allow just any app to enter the system, yet that doesn’t mean all of your data it secured at all times. For instance, there’s not much Apple can do to stop you from exchanging…
Lookout Security identified a new Android Trojan, LeNa, which is said to be an evolution of the Legacy variant discovered earlier this year (also known as DroidKungFu). While previous Legacy variants were spotted only in alternative app markets and forums in China, this one (called LeNa) has also been caught on the Android Market (though…
Lookout Mobile launched a new mobile app for iPhone users, helping them feel safer while “doing their thing” on the web or using some web-connected app. The new Lookout Mobile Security application is free to download, offering an array of features, including: Missing Device – allows users to locate their lost or stolen phone on…
Earlier this week our very own Marin Perez demonstrated, on video, how easy it is to access Siri on the iPhone 4S despite the device being locked. It’s a very easy problem to fix, just change a setting, but by default your iPhone 4S is open to anyone who has enough malice in their system…
It wasn’t a good weekend for HTC, as it was revealed that the company had a massive security vulnerability in a few of its phones. Some of the flaws allows any app requesting internet access to take a peek at a user account information, GPS location, system logs, and other potentially private data. Well, the manufacturer…