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...

Top 7 Key Network Security Trends to Watch in 2011

Network security is on everyone's mind as 2010 comes to an end. Adam Powers, CTO of Atlanta-based Lancope, offers insights into expected trends for 2011. 1. IT Consumerization and Internal Threats The introduction of consumer devices into corporate networks is reshaping security strategies...

Indian hacker Atul Alex plants back door in Symbian firmware !

Indian hacker Atul Alex has had a look at the firmware for Symbian S60 smartphones and come up with a back door for it. By modifying version 5 of the original software – which runs on such devices as the Nokia 5800, Nokia X6, Nokia 5530XM, Sony Ericsson Satio and Sony Ericsson Vivaz – he has...

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...

Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Apps Accounts

Google has added a two-factor authentication mechanism to the login procedure for its Google Apps offerings, hoping that the addition will help cut down on the amount of fraudulent activity on these accounts. The way that Google has chosen to approach the problem of two-factor authentication is...

Nokia E72 smartphone protection bypass

Keyboard is not locked during password validation...

On the Network Solutions Hack and Smartphone Attacks

In the long-awaited return of the News Wrap podcast, Threatpost’s newest editor, Paul Roberts, makes his debut as he and Dennis Fisher discuss the Network Solutions parked domains hack, the troubling attacks emerging on smartphone platforms and the odd story of a Trojan-infected PC being linked t...

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...

A Soldier's Hacked Smartphone Is Risky

Hacked smartphones could endanger troops by sending location data to the enemy using mechanisms similar to those employed by recently discovered Android malware, experts say. Read the full article. Network World...

Malware Rises With Smartphone Adoption

Researchers are closely watching the rise of malware on Internet-enabled mobile devices. New mobile malware boasts a broad range of functionality, including the capability to download other malicious files, detect internet connections or establish new ones, undertake URL redirection and carry out...

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...

Pwn2Own Predictions: Apple iPhone Will Fall

Hackers at this year’s CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest will definitely break into an Apple iPhone by exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability. That’s the prediction from Charlie Miller and Aaron Portnoy, two security researchers who are monitoring events leading to next week’s hacker challenge...

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...

RSA 2010: Researchers Demo Mobile Botnet from Smartphone App

A pair of researchers has amassed nearly 8,000 iPhones and Android smartphones in an experimental mobile botnet that demonstrates the ease of spreading potentially malicious applications on these devices. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

[MajorSecurity Advisory #65]Motorola Milestone Smartphone Denial of Service

MajorSecurity Advisory 65Motorola Milestone Smartphone Denial of Service Details ============ Product: Motorola MilestoneDroid Smartphone Security-Risk: low Remote-Exploit: yes Vendor-URL: http://www.motorola.com/ Vendor-Status: informed Advisory-Status: published on 02-02-2010 Credits ==========...

Tyler Shields on the BlackBerry Spyware and the Coming Wave of Smartphone Attacks

Dennis Fisher talks with Tyler Shields of Veracode about his BlackBerry spyware application, txsBBSPY, the coming wave of smartphone attacks and his lack of surprise about the Google Aurora attack. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...

Droid Smartphone Hacked for Jailbreaking

A hacker has unleashed an exploit that lets a user wrest administrative root control of a Motorola Droid smartphone. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

BlackBerry Enterprise Server / Attachment Service PDF Distiller Unspecified Vulnerabilities (KB19860)

The version of BlackBerry Enterprise Server on the remote host reportedly contains several unspecified vulnerabilities in the PDF distiller component of the BlackBerry Attachment Service. By sending a specially crafted PDF file and having it opened on a Blackberry smartphone, an attacker may be...

BlackBerry, Other Smartphone Users Easy Spy Targets

iPhone lovers and other smartphone users should take heed: A security researcher showed ways to spy on a BlackBerry user during a presentation Wednesday, including listening to phone conversations, stealing contact lists, reading text messages, taking and viewing photos and figuring out the...