Communications and Security Issues with Smart Phones
How secure is your personal information? Would you drop a piece of paper on the ground with your name address and all of your banking details? Would you leave all of your personal details on a hard drive for others to use? How about a smart phone? Does your smart phone have all of these personal details, and even more perhaps? A UK government agency (DTAAC) has reported that 80% of UK users carry enough information in their phones that, "they could be used to commit fraud". The report goes on to say that 16% of users have all of their banking details stored on phones? How secure is your information?
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The pocket spy: Will your smartphone rat you out? - tech - 14 October 2009 - New Scientist
The pocket spy: Will your smartphone rat you out? 14 October 2009 by Linda Geddes Magazine issue 2730THERE are certain things you do not want to share with strangers. In my case it was a stream of highly personal text messages from my husband, sent during the early days of our relationship. Etched on my phone's SIM card - but invisible on my current handset and thus forgotten - here they now are, displayed in all their brazen glory on a stranger's computer screen. I've just walked into a windowless room on an industrial estate in Tamworth, UK, where three cellphone analysts in blue shirts sit at their terminals, scrutinising the contents of my phone and smirking. "If it's any consolation, we would have found them even if you had deleted them," says one. Worse, it seems embarrassing text messages aren't the only thing I have to worry about: "Is this a photo of your office?" another asks (the answer is yes). "And did you enjoy your ...
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Ten dangerous claims about smart phone security
Ten dangerous claims about smart phone securityOur columnist sees Barack Obama with that BlackBerry and shuddersBy Jon EspenschiedMarch 23, 2007 12:00 PM ET Comments(14)Recommended(266)DiggTwitterShare/EmailComputerworld - My heart sank when I first saw Al Gore pull out his BlackBerry. It was in the waning weeks of the 2000 presidential campaign, and there he was on the TV, tapping away on his then-novel converged device. Though I had no evidence, I was positive that whatever he was reading had already been perused by some conservative skunk works, with his responses scrutinized not long after. Given recent revelations about the opposition's ethics and panting obsession with domestic spying, I still suspect that any eavesdropping technically possible at the time was probably being done.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9014118/Ten_dangerous_claims_about_smart_phone_security
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It’s Time to Get Smart About Smart Phone Security
Taking a deep dive into smart phone security. In this article, we will look at what is new in mobile device security threats and solutions, including our “wish list” for Windows Mobile 7 from a security point of view
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Time-Get-Smart-About-Smart-Phone-Security.html
Have a read of these articles. They give a great insight into threats and solutions for those of us, and it should be all of us, who are concerned about security of information stored on mobile phones.
Regards Graham Betts
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