Only U.S. customers targeted with Carrier IQ?

Only U.S. customers targeted with Carrier IQ?


Only U.S. customers targeted with Carrier IQ?

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:41 AM PST

Carriers are yet to be affected greatly by the revelations made by researcher Trevor Eckhart. Even though most mobile phone manufacturers have denied installing the Carrier IQ software before deliv...

Beware of fake Amazon account confirmation emails

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:07 AM PST

Amazon users are being targeted again with spam emails purporting to come from the "Amazon Team" and asking users to "confirm" their accounts, warns Sophos. The email carries an attached HTML for...

Microsoft spam-detecting algorithm helps with HIV research

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:44 AM PST

When the first computer viruses popped up, their behavior was so similar to that of their biological counterparts that security researchers simply chose to appropriate the already existing expression.

U.S. financial fraud increasing rapidly

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:41 AM PST

Cyber criminals are launching more and more sophisticated attacks on U.S. wireless consumers. Research reveals that financial fraud and spam via SMS texts is now growing at a rate of over 300 perce...

IT pros can't resist peeking at privileged information

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:30 AM PST

IT security staff will be some of the most informed people at the office Christmas party this year. A full 26 per cent of them admit to using their privileged log in rights to look at confidential inf...

EU data directive reform could be a business burden

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:29 AM PST

The imminent reform of the European Data Protection Directive could be ineffective in the short term and place further financial and security burdens upon European businesses at a time when they can l...

Cain & Abel 4.9.43 released

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:15 AM PST

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using dictionary ...

Tool to detect Carrier IQ

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:13 AM PST

Bitdefender announced the availability of a new tool that identifies the presence of the controversial mobile network diagnostic tool from Carrier IQ. Dubbed Carrier IQ Finder, the tool instantly...

42% of disaster recovery strategies dead or dormant

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:07 AM PST

UK businesses are still ill-prepared to deal with downtime and unexpected disruption to operations, says ControlCircle. A recent survey of 100 CIOs/COOs/IT heads identified that whilst 90% had a st...

IEEE 802.3 specifications investigated

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:07 AM PST

IEEE launched a study group to investigate a new PHY (Physical Layer) standard for operating the Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) protocol transparently over coaxial distribution networks. T...

Week in review: The Carrier IQ issue, how cyber attackers think, and the problem with malware metrics

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:06 AM PST

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and podcasts: Anonymous bloggers in danger of being exposed You're a blogger who, for whatever reason, wishes to remain anonymous.

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