Unspecified Vulnerability in Apple iPhone and iPod touch iOS Find My iPhone

Apple iOS on iPhone 3G and iPod touch is an operating system from Apple Inc. for the iPhone 3G and iPod touch.Find My iPhone is a component that provides the ability to retrieve an accidentally lost iPhone.... A security vulnerability exists in the Find My iPhone component of iOS versions 2.0...

Police Arrest Man Potentially Linked to Group Threatening to Wipe Millions Of iPhones

The British authority has reportedly arrested a 20-years-old young man – potentially one of the member of a cyber criminal gang 'Turkish Crime Family' who threatened Apple last week to remotely wipe data from millions of iOS devices unless Apple pays a ransom of $75,000. The UK's National Crime...

SAP Afaria Security Bypass Vulnerability

SAP Afaria is a mobile device management solution from SAP. SAP Afaria suffers from a security vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication checks, wipe information or lock a mobile device by sending a specially crafted request...

GPS based tracking service provided by Samsung vulnerable to thieves

Samsung which is currently believed to the highest Smartphones Seller in the World is now providing a Remote tracking solution in all its smartphones to Track the lost phone with the name "Samsung Dive". The Service is based on the Architecture which primarily acquires precise location of the sma...

Gizmodo gets hacked via Apple tech support

Is your iCloud account secured by a good password? Please Don't rely on the cloud. Here's a terrifying tale of modern hacking. Mat Honan, a reporter at tech site Gizmodo, was playing with his daughter when his phone went dead. Thinking it was a software glitch, he rebooted, and went to log in to...

Snail mail the data

Another way to avoid having your digital privacy intruded upon is to backup all the data onto an external hard drive, USB drive or SD card making sure the content of your backup is encrypted, of course. You can then ship the data to your destination. With your data copied off the device, you can...

Erase Data/Selective Data Wipe

While the iPhone was developed, primarily, as a consumer device, it quickly became apparent to Apple that its appeal wasn’t limited to personal use. Workers everywhere were bringing their shiny new iPhones to work and using them to connect to corporate wifi networks and check their work e-mail. T...

Researchers Expose Security Flaw in Internet-Ready HDTVs

Researchers at Mocana, a security technology firm in San Francisco, recently demonstrated the ease with which they could hack into a popular Internet-ready HDTV model. They exploited a vulnerability in the software that displays websites on the TV, allowing them to control the information sent to...

iPhone 3G S still not enterprise-ready

From Computerworld Matt Hamblen The new iPhone 3G S boasts remote data wipe, hardware-based encryption and tethering of the device to a laptop that would seem to please business users interested in protecting data and enhancing productivity. But no, those steps are not good enough for widespread...

Airscanner Mobile Security Advisory: Remote Hard Reset Data Wipe and DoS of Pocket Controller v5.0 (#AS05080401)

------------------------------------- Airscanner Mobile Security Advisory: AS05080401 Critical ------------------------------------- Remote Hard Reset Data Wipe and DoS of Pocket Controller v5.0 AS05080401 Date of discovery: August 4, 2005 Product: Pocket Controller-Professional V5 latest edition...