You might remember that particularly nasty Curse of Silence bug the plagued S60 devices last month. Well, the peeps at Nokia have provided a free SMS Cleaner to ensure that your phone stays safe. The original discovery caused quite the stir, as once a particularly formatted SMS message was received the device would be unable…
New Symbian virus targets mobile banking service in Indonesia
Kaspersky Lab detected a new malicious program for Symbian that targets customers of an Indonesian mobile phone operator. The Trojan-SMS.Python.Flocker has five known variants, from .ab to.af, and it’s written in Python. If a phone is infected with it, the Trojan will send SMS messages to a short number with instructions to transfer part of…
Microsoft Warns Obama About Canadian Eyes Prying on BlackBerry Use
The U.S. President’s phone situation is still somewhat up in the air – he’ll probably be keeping the BlackBerry, and is eyeballing the Sectera Edge for more sensitive communications, but some think he should stick to the one device. Microsoft, however, has questioned the wisdom of the president relying on a device whose maker is…
Kaspersky Mobile Security 8.0 released in beta
Kaspersky Labs released the beta version of its solution for protecting smartphones – Kaspersky Mobile Security 8.0. Apart from boasting standard anti-virus, anti-spam and firewall modules – the new version also adds other apps to the mix: SMS-Find – allows users to locate their lost phone using GPS. By sending an SMS with a password…
General Dynamics’ Sectera Edge Product Shots and Specs
In quick response to my Obama Sectera Edge post, a staffer at General Dynamics happily sent over some product shots and specs for the General Dynamics Sectera Edge. After the jump are full specs and product shots on the device that President-Elect Obama may be using in the near future.
NSA Approves Devices for Obama’s Use Including the General Dynamics’ Sectera Edge
We’re all aware how President-Elect Obama does not want to give up his BlackBerry after he takes office. US Officials are still working on Obama, trying to ‘pry’ the BlackBerry from his hands due to growing security concerns. Luckily for Obama however, a few devices have surfaced that have been approved for web browsing, viewing…
Total Control: Video Camera Edition for the BlackBerry
Intelligent Designs Group has introduced the launch of their ‘Total Control’ suites of software. The suite I found to be particularly interesting was the BlackBerry video surveillance software. With it, you can view and control live video streams from supported IP cameras and video encoders. The cool thing about it is no 3rd party servers…
Cellphone gun packs a punch!
You want a secure cellphone? Mobile phones don’t get any more secure than this! Talk about a truly “killer” cellphone… [Via: TheRawFeed]
AT&T working on voice-recognition and location-activated cellphone security?
Mobile phones are getting ever more powerful. And, as cellphone feature-set keep growing, so do cellphone price-tags. It would make sense to protect your expensive handset. Even more sense with advanced devices that contain or can access sensitive and valuable data. AT&T might just be working on ways to keep you and your precious handset…
Mexican legislation would require prepaid customers to register identity
Mobile phones and their integration into daily life has changed the way the world communicates. But, the other side of this double-edged sword we call wireless connectivity poses a threat to national security , as evidenced by the Mumbai attackers’ reliance on BlackBerrysmartphones and prepaid SIM cards . Mexico has started down the road to…