How to Recover iPhone Passwords in Six Minutes

Smartphone security has jumped to the top of the list of concerns for many IT security staffs and one of the main reasons for that is the epidemic of lost and stolen smartphones. Many of those devices have only minimal password protection, and now researchers in Germany have devised a new techniq...

Hackers learning new ways to hijack smartphones !

How safe is your cell phone? Thieves are coming up with new ways to hijack the most popular smartphones. ABC Action News investigative reporter Michael George enlisted the help of a hacking expert to find out how these programs work, and how to beat them. Droids, iPhones, and BlackBerries are jus...

Carriers Enhance Mobile Security to Combat Attacks and Breaches

Carriers, developers, and phone makers are rolling out new services and features to protect mobile devices from malicious attacks and data breaches. As people increasingly use smartphones for email, banking, and document access, the wireless industry is addressing mobile device security. Accordin...

Top 5 Internet Security Threats for Businesses in 2023

Businesses can leave themselves vulnerable to data theft and other online threats, particularly as security and IT budgets are under pressure while companies try to save money. Although budgets are tight, it is crucial for companies to stay protected online. On average, the total cost of security...

Mobile Security Woes Go Beyond Malicious Apps

If, like most Americans, you’ve developed an attachment to your mobile phone that borders on the unnatural and have a hard time going 11 seconds without checking email or texts, you’d do well not to attend a talk by Zach Lanier and Mike Zusman anytime soon. The pair discussed a variety of...

iPhones, BlackBerrys, Droids Becoming a Moveable Feast for Attackers

Since at least the time of the iPhone’s introduction in 2007, mobile phones have been moving toward their inevitable evolutionary destiny of becoming full-on handheld computers, complete with complex operating systems, the ability to run multiple applications and store large amounts of data. And...

Smartphone Malware Has Ramped Up

The number of malware and spyware programs found on smartphones like the Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices has more than doubled in the past six months, and some types of malware are more prevalent on certain smartphone platforms than others. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

Is That a Bot In Your Pocket? Or Does It Just Look Like One?

Last week at the RSA Conference, my colleague Derek Brown and I, presented findings from a research project titled MOBOTS: Pocketful of Pwnage, which was designed to show how easy it would be to create a large mobile botnet. Please note that we did not actually create a botnet; we simply presente...

Google Android Security Chief: Smartphone Attacks on the Way

As smartphones become even smarter, they are going to attract more and more attention from attackers, spammers and others looking to take control of the billions of mobile devices in use today, the head of Google’s Android security team said. In a talk at the USENIX Security symposium Wednesday,...

How to Plan for Smartphone Security in the Enterprise

From eWEEK Chris De Herrera One of the major challenges CIOs face is the deployment and security of smartphones in the enterprise. It’s important for CIOs to assess how their organization should secure the smartphones employees use to access corporate resources. Here, Knowledge Center contributor...

iPhone security comes to the fore

By Paul F. Roberts, The 451 Group The security of smartphones such as the iPhone, Windows Mobile devices and the T-Mobile G1 has come under a lot of scrutiny lately. Each device has its own unique security model, and in the case of the iPhone, Apple has kept its platform closed to third-party...

Android, iPhone security under scrutiny at CanSecWest

A parade of security researchers spent the better part of Wednesday at the CanSecWest conference putting the lie to the notion that iPhones, Windows Mobile devices and other smartphones are not really targets for attackers. “Smartphones are a very nice thing to go after from an attacker’s point o...

Nokia N95-8 browser (setAttributeNode) Method Crash Exploit

No description provided by source. Application: Nokia N95-8 OS: Symbian ------------------------------------------------------ 1 - Description 2 - Vulnerability 3 - POC/EXPLOIT ------------------------------------------------------ Description The nokia n95 is a smartphone, this phone have more...