Posts Tagged mobile security
Spam text, smishing, malicious apps- the potential attacks on your mobile phone privacy and security are numerous and constantly evolving. But is it always obvious you’ve been infected? PCMag’s Security Watch guru Max Eddy posted last week on 5 tell-tell signs that you might have a problem… 1) Racked up phone bills Perhaps the most [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, smartphone manufacturer Samsung says it will rival Blackberry in business security. The company has been beefing up the Google Android software, which it has termed “Knox” as in the fort, to protect users from malware and hackers. Samsung has partnered with General Dynamics, a military contractor, to [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Think the FTC only goes after fraudulent privacy policies and illegal Do Not Call violations? Think again. In the first case of it’s kind, the FTC charged mobile device manufacturer HTC with potential security loopholes that would allow third-party applications to install software to steal personal information from people’s phones. The company didn’t design its products with security in mind,” Lesley [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →PrivacyStar was proud to be featured on KTHV News segment, Protecting personal info on your smartphone, by Dustin Williams on Wednesday. The opening line asks the question “do you know where you personal information is going and how you can protect it in this mobile movement?” PrivacyStar’s CEO, Jeff Stalnaker, talked with Williams about the “free” [...]
Continue Reading →The Star-telegram provides great tips on how to protect your smartphone from spam and more dangerous hacks in it’s recent article, Mobile devices are new frontier for identity theft. PrivacyStar was quoted to be “the app that helps the consumer fight back…” PrivacyStar announced this week that its subscribers have filed more than 200,000 complaints with [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Lifehacker published a great How To article featuring various ways to “de-SPAM” your life. From calls & texts to email & snailmail- chances are, there’s a solution out there. How to De-Spam Your Life… Android users have quite a few options to block unwanted texters. PrivacyStar will cost you a few bucks per months, but [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Replying to an unsolicited text message can be just as dangerous as replying to an unsolicited e-mail. Just like “phishing” collects personal information from unsuspecting internet users, “smishing” collects personal information from mobile phone users. “Smishing” is a pandemic all over the nation. Mobile phone users in Little Rock, Arkansas have been especially hard-hit by [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →Sometimes in the world of mobile phone privacy, a dark cloud truly can have a silver lining. Such is the case with the recent blowup over the social media iOS app Path, which was caught taking users’ address books without permission or even notification and uploading them to their own servers. In a surprisingly honest [...]
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Leave a Comment (0) →There’s potentially good news out of Capitol Hill in the battle for mobile phone privacy rights. On January 30th, Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass) introduced a discussion draft of a bill aimed at preventing mobile phone companies from using monitoring software without their customers’ knowledge and consent. If passed, the bill would give the Federal Trade [...]
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