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A few years ago, upskirt photos being taken on mobile devices became quite problematic in Japan and South Korea. Officials in both countries started cracking down on those perverts, especially in trains where most of the crimes were taking place. In fact, phones were required to make a shutter sound every time their cameras were…
When many of us think smartphone security, the first company that pops into mind is BlackBerry. It’s the reason many enterprise users have trusted the brand all these years. However, for the average BlackBerry user, it seems like the only real security you can get is from passcode-protecting your device. BlackBerry Protect, however, should give…
Since its announcement, RIM has been touting the BlackBerry PlayBook as the one and only enterprise-ready tablet, and to further emphasize the point they’ve released a video talking in vague terms about how awesome and secure the thing is. The key phrase in the video is that the PlayBook was “Built for CIOs with CIOs”…
The Motorola Droid Pro was just the company’s first attempt to crack into the BlackBerry market with enterprises and Motorola plans to beef up Android security on its own in order to make the platform more corporate friendly. According to an interview with InfoWorld, the company said that the Android platform is still being seen…
Sprint offers a wide range of BlackBerry and Android smartphones, so customers have a number of ways to get their personal info stolen or compromised. To combat this, Sprint is offering a remote wipe, lock and location service for its BlackBerry and Android handsets that are also covered by the carrier’s Total Equipment Protection plan.…
The mobile security company NetQin spotted another piece of malware for Android devices in China. Dubbed “Hong Tou Tou”, it is distributed by hiding itself in legitimate apps such as the game RoboDefense. Once the infected app is started, the virus will connect to a network in the background and attempt to collect private information…
It wasn’t that long ago when we got wind of the Geinimi Trojan Lookout Security spotted on Android, and it looks like they have found yet another. This one is called HongTouTou, and it finds itself repackaged in third-party app stores and forums in China. According to the Lookout blog, the HongTouTou, requests additional user…
The Android developers site has updated the targeted devices section and it shows Froyo taking in almost 60% of the pie. Android 2.3 Gingerbread‘s share has doubled within a month, which doesn’t actually mean much because it’s on less than 1% of all devices. We’re still wondering if Honeycomb and further tablet-optimized versions of the…
RIM’s ongoing negotiations with the government of India regarding lawful interception of BlackBerry data have hit a bit of a roadblock. RIM has already gone on record and said that they can’t access anything on BlackBerry Enterprise Servers, but the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that they still insist that some kind of surveillance…
Opera and YouGov recently released the results of their survey regarding popular perceptions of online security and privacy. Compiling data from over a thousand respondents in each of the U.S., Japan, and Russia, it was concluded that having internet privacy violated to the point of fraud was a bigger daily worry than losing a job…