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Maybe it was something in the water, but the last week of May was indeed a week of extremes–from the biggest threat on record to the tiniest Trojan to an unusual and completely unexpected act of transparency from Apple. H...

  In the AV industry, one of the golden rules is to make sure that, during analysis, we do not in any way help the malware authors and/or propagate their offspring. This requires special care in the case of malware for mobile...

Some time ago, a security researcher, Alex Levinson, found out the iPhone was keeping a SQLite database of the iPhone’s location (wifi-based location, cell-based or GPS) and a few other information. The file, located in ...

Is Symbian still the leader for smartphone operating systems or not? How far have Android and iPhones penetrated the market? Who’s the leader for smartphone OS: Symbian? BlackBerry? Android? iPhone? A quick search on Inte...

On this episode of Network World’s Security Landscape, Derek Manky from Fortinet and Keith Shaw discuss the latest security threats seen worldwide. This includes the rise of do-it-yourself crimeware botnet kits, as well a...

Last week, a lady from the sales department dropped in to see me for some help with her iPhone. She was worried because she had “suddenly” lost all of her contacts, music and emails. She had turned to a neighbor of ...

Unless you’re on a trek in the Himalayas, by now you’ve probably heard one way or another that the infamous ”Jailbreakme” website is back to free iPhones (including iPhones 4 running iOS 4.0.1) and iPads...

Unless you have been cut from the net this last week, you probably know by now iPhones are facing their first set of malware (first ? well, actually, not quite as we have already detected spyware for iPhones): it’s just a...

There are days where I wonder if people really care about privacy (except for these people). Most people don’t see any problem in telling the entire world what they’re doing (Twitter), who they know or see (Facebook...

Last week, I had hardly reached my desk when a colleague rushed by my side and told me, all excited, Apple had announced the release of a new iPhone 3GS. They also unveiled interesting new functionality in MobileMe, which start...