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This is definitely weird. BGR brings us the story of Reddit user Glarznak who described how his iPhone 5s continued to track his movements despite its battery being dead for 4 days. The Redditor said that he was recently traveling abroad when his iPhone 5s charger cable broke. He didn’t get a new cable and…
During last year’s Mobile World Congress, Samsung unveiled its first Knox solution to make it more secure for enterprise and government customers to use Sammy-made devices and implement BYOD policies. Now the Korean company is out with Knox 2.0 that adds a number of new features to the mix, including: Two-factor biometric authentication that requires…
Folks looking for an extra piece of mind may like the Blackphone, a device that brings Android security to a whole new level. Product of Geeksphone and Silent Circle, it runs a custom version of Google’s mobile OS called PrivatOS and ships with pre-installed apps to enable private calls, texting, video chats, file exchange up…
Good folks of Protect Your Bubble prepared a neat infographic to highlight the top 10 most dangerous things people do with their smartphones. Here’s what they’ve got: No password – up to 62% of smartphone owners don’t password-protect their device. Auto sign-in for banking and financial services Take, send and store nude photos on their…
Mobile banking sure is convenient, but we could all end up paying for that convenience, quite literally. With most Americans touting smartphones these days, so are most Americans using mobile banking apps to check balances, pay bills and the like. One would assume that a mobile banking app would be touting some major, heavy-duty security,…
Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks shook the nation to its core and have created big questions among mobile phone users. The NSA’s collection of cellphone metadata, as well as other information, was done with the cooperation of mobile carriers. Customers understandably have begun to demand accountability from their providers. Credo Mobile announced today that it has…
As part of the strategy to make its devices more secure than those made by competing handset makers, BlackBerry plans to establish the “Security Innovation Center” in Washington, D.C. The idea is not new and has been initially unveiled by CEO John Chen during the company’s recent quarterly results. At that time, Chen said that…
Credo Mobile has made its business on offering up the phones people want with a social conscience. The San Francisco based company donates portions of its proceeds to progressive causes such as Planned Parenthood, the Rainforest Action Network, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Credo now has Google’s latest, the Nexus 5 in both black and…
Popular social sharing app Snapchat has been hacked, and the account info for 4.6 million users has been released online. Usernames and a partial phone numbers were available for download on a website set up by the hackers. The phone numbers and account information was posted to SnapchatDB.info. The site was suspended by late Wednesday…
Two weeks after a federal judge in Washington D.C. ruled that NSA’s phone snooping was “almost certainly” unconstitutional, we have different judge “agreeing to disagree”; a federal judge in Manhattan ruled that the NSA’s actions were legal, setting the stage for a possible Supreme Court decision down the road. ACLU brought the case to the…