Blackberry says, soon hackers will use smartphones for hacking. Smartphones can be used to attack network decvices and wireless networks. Viruses can be embedded in famous applications and hence they get into your smartphones easily. Here is the detailed story
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Smartphone cybercrime
November 19th, 2009Smartphone security threats on the RISE
October 27th, 2009Worms viruses or hackers are not only for your computer. Internet security experts say, its now coming to your cell phones and smart phones.
Smartphones, BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm, etc are getting popular and are seacurity leaks are found in them.
Last year, about 139 million smartphones were sold worldwide and plans of Apple iPhone launch in China is expected later this year, the number of potential targets is expected only to get deeper.
Security companies have seenvarious threats to smartphones. In most common cases.
Security experts further say they have seen all the major online threats – Trojan Horses, viruses and worms – the virus enters the smart phones often by e-mail attachments that are opened on phones.
You need smartphone security software to deal with all these kinds of threats, specially as now we keep our e-banking and other internet website passwords in smartphones, and any hacker can misuse if our phone is not secured by security softwares and kept up-to-date with latest software patches and version upgrades.
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T-Mobile Smartphone Users May Lose Data
October 13th, 2009The mobile phone provider T-Mobile and danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft and a partner of T-Mobile, said last weekend that there is a glitch in their computer systems would likely result in some customers losing their personal information and contact names, telephone numbers and digital photos.
T-Mobile and Danger operate what is known as a service “cloud computing” for important information to save for their customers. In theory this service should make life easier for people to manage complex computer systems to leave for the pros and data held in a sophisticated computer. But when problems arise, there is the shame.
Last week, T-Mobile and Danger, which manages data services, began wrestling with a number of technical issues that affect users of the Sidekick smartphone.
In particular, customers who had removed the batteries from their phones or had let their batteries run out at the prospect of permanently losing your contacts, calendar, photos and to-do list information
