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Skype has just updated its Android app, and it patches a security bug that could have exposed user data and information to third parties. Initial reports surrounding the security issue stated that the application could have been collecting user names, phone numbers, chat logs and a whole lot more. Skype says that it takes user…
Are you wearing your tin foil hat? OK, good, because a security firm recently discovered that your iPhone or iPad 3G – or both! – are recording your every movement and storing it in a secret file, which is then backed up on your computer. Your Apple gadget keeps track of your longitudinal and latitudinal…
BlackBerry smartphones aren’t the only ones that have to worry about getting keeping access in India. In a communication between home and telecom ministries, it was asked that a hold was placed on the sale of Nokia devices with push e-mail until monitoring systems were in place. This is part of a new standards compliance…
Following up on his Bloomberg interview last week, RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie spoke with the Wall Street Journal about not only reviews of the BlackBerry PlayBook, but also the ongoing security situation in India and a few other issues. Balsillie replied to Walt Mossberg’s “codependent” label of the PlayBook by calling the relationship between RIM’s…
When Skype Video app leaked out for the HTC Thunderbolt, many were ecstatic to make video calls over the super-fast Verizon 4G LTE network but you may want to wait a awhile to try it, as a new report suggests this has a bad security vulnerability. How bad? Well, it looks like the Skype Video…
RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis abruptly ended an interview with BBC when pushed for the status of the ongoing BlackBerry security concerns in India. The interviewer sought some kind of reassurance to the public that BlackBerry service in India would continue, or that good progress was being made, but Lazaridis called the line of questioning “not…
It’s not much of a surprise, but a new Symantec report suggests that baddies are increasingly targeting mobile devices like your shiny smartphone and tablet. The report was actually pretty scary, as Symantec says that social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are also under attack, in addition to the traditional means like e-mail phishing…
German Green party member and privacy advocate Malte Spitz wanted to see just how much data T-Mobile Germany was storing about him, so he went after T-Mobile, and after a legal back-and-forth, received 35,831 points of location information spanning as far back as six months (a time period mandated by local law). Of course, there…
At the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, some well-intentioned hackers broke into a BlackBerry handset through the WebKit browser in OS 6.0 (found on the Torch, Style, Bold 9780, and others). Vincenzo Iozzo, Willem Pinckaers, and Ralf Weinmann were able to access the phone’s contact list and files stored on the microSD memory card, as…
During the 4 days of January (27-31), Harris Interactive conducted an online survey among 2,364 U.S. online adults aged 18+ to determine whether they trust using their tablets and smartphones for transferring sensitive data. The results show that those with tablets are more willing to do so than smartphone users. Here are the finding: Of…