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Securing handheld devices

2008-04-02 10:38:07 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Mobile devices continue to be the topic of most security conversations around the office. What devices are the most secure? Should users connect personal smartphones and PDAs to our network? What controls should be in place? These are just three of many considerations when thinking about the growing user demands for handheld use
 
Tags: devices, mobile devices continue, handheld, security conversations, user demands, topic, network, secure, office
 
 
 
 
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Securing handheld devices - Part 2

2008-04-03 09:03:36 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Protecting mobile/handheld devices isnât just a security manager responsibility; users are also expected to understand how to use and protect them
 
Tags: security manager responsibility, mobilehandheld devices, protect, users
 
 
 
 
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Securing handheld devices - Part 1

2008-04-02 10:38:07 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Mobile devices continue to be the topic of most security conversations around the office. What devices are the most secure? Should users connect personal smartphones and PDAs to our network? What controls should be in place? These are just three of many considerations when thinking about the growing user demands for handheld use
 
Tags: devices, mobile devices continue, handheld, security conversations, user demands, topic, network, secure, office
 
 
 
 
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Moto Q9 DoS and Fingerprinting

2008-01-12 18:10:21 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...handheld device the user agent reads, MOT-Q9/01.04.35R Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; Smartphone; 320240) Opera 8.65 UP.Link/6.3.1.17.0. Eesh! It gives my actual device type! So then I turn the setting to desktop computer it turns to Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Opera 8.65 [en] UP.Link/6.3.1.17.0....
 
Tags: accept language, accept, devcap, devcap charset, devcap numsoftkeys, accept charset, devcap screenpixels, cell phone hacker, phone
 
 
 
 
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Microsofts' spy patent can monitor even your heartbeat

2008-01-17 09:40:09 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Every aspect of computer users lives from their heartbeat to a guilty smile could be monitored and immediately analysed under the futuristic system detailed in Microsofts patent application. The systems work not only through desktop or laptop computers but even through mobile phones or handheld PCs
 
Tags: microsofts patent application, computer users lives, mobile phones, handheld pcs, guilty smile, futuristic system, laptop computers, heartbeat, desktop
 
 
 
 
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Blackberry risk overseas? What else is new?

2008-02-16 12:41:01 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...handheld devices is the willingness of users--both corporate and private--to ignore the dangers associated with the use of their smartphones and PDAs. This is true not only for non-management types. This is also true for C-level managers--the people most likely to use these device out of the country as well as demand less constraints on their...
 
Tags: true, c-level managers, handheld devices, non-management types, risk, users, ignore, smartphones, constraints
 
 
 
 
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Can game console technology find roadside bombs?

2008-03-29 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b2d384 in Network World on Security
 
While it can already be found in some of the most popular handheld devices and video game consoles, Markham, Ont.-based Quanser Consulting hopes to take haptic technology -- which merges tactile sensation and control to interaction with computer applications -- to uncharted terrain with a tour of duty in the Canadian military
 
Tags: popular handheld devices, video game consoles, merges tactile sensation, canadian military, haptic technology, computer applications, interaction, quanser, duty
 
 
 
 
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Seven Years of Wi-Fi Networking News

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2008-04-04 15:10:45 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...handhelds probably in 2009 that sport high-speed connections for all kinds of high-bandwidth purposes, like live uploading of streaming video Video over wireless. I look at this category as not just another instance of broadcast, like Qualcomm's MediaFLO which is really TV to the cell phone; rather, we'll see ways in which Wi-Fi, WiMax, and...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi hotspot giant, municipal wi-fi, wi-fi signal finder, wi-fi world, world, 11b-later-wi-fi site, 11b, news
 
 
 
 
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Employers loosen rules on camera phones

2008-05-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b47adc in Network World on Security
 
Cameras are available on just about every kind of wireless handheld device, from inexpensive cell phones to high-end smart phones, putting pressure on IT managers to reconsider corporate security policies banning cameras
 
Tags: high-end smart phones, wireless handheld device, inexpensive cell phones, security policies, cameras, pressure, reconsider, managers