Do you have an iPhone or an Android based phone? Wait, don’t tell me, if you installed some third party apps I can probably find out. According to Lookout Inc., in an article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100728/ap_on_re_us/us_tec_techbit_apps_privacy many of the iPhone and Android apps include spyware. To be fair, Lookout Inc didn’t call it spyware, but that

…iPhones are, under limited circumstances, willing to share information with other devices when they shouldn’t…

What would happen if every single one of the four BILLION cell phones on this planet just went dark? Or most likely, what would happen if every single cell phone went dark in one country? One scenario is a combined DoS attack on the internet was combined with a DoS attack on the cellular phone infrastructure at the same time.

Enterprise Mobile Today http://www.enterprisemobiletoday.com/news/article.php/3875521/Apple-Unveils-Key-iPhone-Upgrade.htm ran a story about some upgrades to the iPhone. There are a number of features in iPhone OS version 4. The operating system being able to multitask, like Android and other smartphones do. Corporate administrators will be able to push out updates instead of users being required to use iTunes to

Inevitably, CanSecWest  2010 kicked off with the promised and eagerly-awaited Pwn2Own hacking contest, in which a number of effective protection strategies (DEP, code signing, ASLR [1]) failed to prevent determined vulnerability researchers making loadsamoney by circumventing them with attacks on Firefox and IE8 on Windows 7, Safari, and the iPhone. For details and extensive comment see: http://macviruscom.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/and-the-firewalls-came-tumbling-down/ http://kevtownsend.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/sacred-cows-fall-at-pwn2own/

The Survey is closed and I had a whopping 28 total responses :) The questions were 1. How often do you connect your iPhone to a computer with iTunes running? 2. Have you owned your iPhone for at least 6 months? 3. How did you learn of this survey? Five people did not respond to

[Update: The Register's John Leyden has also commented on the issue at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/16/apple_bans_iphone_hackers/] There's been a burst of interest in the last day or so in the blocking of certain Apple IDs from the iTunes App Store. Some bloggers have suggested that this might be a precursor to a massive blocking of jailbroken phones from accessing

As posted a few minutes ago on Mac Virus, Dancho Danchev has posted information on a phishing campaign where the bad guys are impersonating Apple in order to steal sensitive device information from iPhone users. Dancho’s post, which has lots of other links, is at: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5460&tag=col1;post-5460 David Harley CISSP FBCS CITP Director of Malware Intelligence ESET

I recently blogged about Patching an iPhone. I’m not sure if I’ll get anymore takers for the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V76LK5L, but if I do I’ll update the results. With 24 responses in, here is what I found. 15 (62.5%) users reported connecting their iPhones to a computer running iTunes at least once a week. Of

According to Cell-news.com, in 2007 over 850,000 Brits flushed their cell phones down the toilet. I’m sorry to report that there isn’t much a security vendor can do to help you if you flush your cell phone. ESET recently commissioned a study of smart phone users concerning mobile security. The results are interesting. A little