For every terrorist attack, there’s a black market dealer providing the required gear. In the recent Mumbai attacks, the critical piece of equipment turned out to be web-connected cellphones. To that end, Mumbai officials have announced that they’ve arrested two Indian men accused of providing SIM cards to the Mumbai terrorists. Rajeev Kumar, a top…
BlackBerry to be ripped from Obama’s steely, hopeful grip
U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama has been known to be a fervent BlackBerry user, continually keeping up to date with his extensive political and personal network while on the campaign trail, but that lifestyle may be shortly coming to an end now that he’s on the way to the White House and faces a wide variety…
Palm Treo Pro gets Bluetooth fixing update
The Palm Treo Pro, being Palm’s flagship handset, is the best Palm Treo to ever come out of Palm’s R&D labs. But, that doesn’ t mean that the recently launched handset is immune to the bugs that tend to plague new devices. Palm has issued a new software update that promises to fix a niggling…
Security: are you comfortable sharing your information with ‘the cloud’?
There is a growing trend, which you might have noticed (would be hard not to!), for companies to offer ‘cloud computing’ services – Google have been there for a while, Apple recently relaunched theirs, and Microsoft have now put their play out there too. And that is just the big three, as opposed to the…
Google kills Android jailbreak with new Android OS RC30 update
Talk about a quick response. Almost as soon as the Android development community happen to stumble upon a root-access “jailbreak” method for the Android OS, Google let loose their counter-punch. Google is now pushing out a new Android OS build that patches the current Android jailbreak exploit. The patch should make quick work of closing…
iPhone hacker discovers iPhone crashing bug
The iPhone is apparently still a big target for would-be malicious hackers. With the iPhone 3G now available around the world, and Apple now the second largest smartphone manufacturer, users would be wise to double check any webpage or media that they view on their iPhone. The latest security bug comes from an enterprising iPhone…
Android Antivirus Software ‘VirusGuard’ Coming to Android Market in 2009
This is kind of cool news for early adopters of the Android OS, on the T-Mobile G1. The first antivirus software for the new open-source operating system is now available. On some levels, I suppose the very fact that an antivirus software is needed is somewhat ‘un-cool’… So perhaps I should recall my initial statement.…
iPhone Dev Team declares iPhone 3G baseband software unlock almost ready!
While the rest of the world goes about their daily business, toiling away at their jobs or studying to make the grade, the iPhone Dev Team has been working away to make the iPhone 3G software unlock solution a reality. Sure, the iPhone 3G is available in just about every major wireless market in the…
Taliban Orders Daytime Shutdown of Mobile Phone Networks
The Taliban have ordered mobile operators in Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul to shut down their networks during the daytime. They are concerned that the networks are being used to track the movements of Taliban fighters. I’m not surprised to hear this news. Earlier in the year they had ordered networks to shut down during…
Mocana NanoPhone Security Suite for the Android Mobile Platform
I’ve started to hear rumblings that some developers are having some major issues regarding Android and security. While developers are digging into Android, they want to be sure that their apps are safe and secure. To that end, I just received a note in my inbox regarding a possible solution for developers. Mocana, a provider…