Recently in security Category
Next Access Technologies developer of YourKey personalized data security system for smartphones, has signed a co-marketing and partnering agreement
with LifeLock.
The YourKey app help you not loose your cool when your phone is missing or stolen. There's a video about this free app at the end of the article. It creates a supper strong security image and keyboard pin that protects your data if/when your smartphone is stolen.
The partnering agreement calls for YourKey, a secure and fun-to-use
auto-locking interface and application that encourages users to protect
personal and business information stored on their smartphones, to
promote and advertise LifeLock services via clickable banner and icon
ads within the YourKey app.
This app would have helped Paris Hilton when she lost her beloved BlackBerry
or if she losses her new BFF's her Sony handsets.
As part of the agreement, LifeLock will be the first advertiser within
the YourKey application and on www.YourKeyLock.com.
The new Web site features a video of how the YourKey user interface and
application works and provides information about the value of protecting
data on personal technology devices, including mobile phones, PDAs,
netbooks and PCs, as a key step toward protecting one's identity. A free
trial of LifeLock® services will be promoted on www.YourKeyLock.com
through banner ad links as well as within the YourKey app.
HTC has issued an update that fixes a Bluetooth vulnerability in the HTC Touch HD, Touch Diamond and Touch Pro. The problem was in the Bluetooth driver, obexfile.dll, and found in HTC Windows mobile phones.Until you download the fix you work-around the bug by not using Bluetooth at all.
The Bluetooth patch shoud block the Bluetooth hackers form HTC WinMo handset's file-system. Once hackers can get into the system they can basically do whatever they want without your permission. The patch is found at the HTC website, be sure download the correct patch for your HTC Windows phone.
According to a Cloudmark-commissioned survey from Harris Interactive, nearly two thirds of mobile device owners are concerned about security. The survey showed security concerns are preventing many users from adopting new mobile services for financial transactions and shopping. Spam is reaching more mobile users and becoming a greater nuisance.
Survey results showed that users' perception of security is proving to be a significant barrier to their adoption, especially for mobile financial transactions:
- 65 percent of all mobile device owners expressed concerns about the security of their device.
- Nearly half (46 percent) of these concerned device owners said that their worries about security prevented them from conducting activities on their mobile device.
- Of the activities mobile device owners said they were prevented from doing because of their concerns, financial transactions such as paying bills (73 percent), conducting banking activities (71 percent) and shopping (56 percent) were named most often.
- 79 percent of mobile device owners said that they have never sent or received confidential information of any kind through their device, which may further illustrate their lack of confidence in security.
