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Can a Mobile Botnet turn your cell into a “Zombie” phone?

Categories: Botnet, cell phones, Cyber-attacks, data confidentiality, data interception, fraudulent crimes, Hacker, Hacking, malicious software, Mobile Devices, PEDs, RF Shielding, secure measures, secure meetings, Texting, vulnerable company information, vulnerable personal information

Tags: Botnet, cell phones, hackers, hacking portable electronic devices, malicious software, Security Guidelines, stolen identity, Texting, vulnerability, vulnerable personal information

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A Mobile botnet is described as a type of botnet that targets mobile devices, attempting to gain complete control of the device and its contents as well as providing control to the botnet originator. Based on research done by several top computer software security companies, mobile phone botnets are on the rise. Read more

How Vulnerable Are PED’s (portable electronic devices) Against a Hacker?

Categories: Cyber-attacks, Hacker, Hacking, PEDs, vulnerable company information, vulnerable personal information

Tags: cell phones, Computer hacking, device, hacker, hackers, hacking, hacking portable electronic devices, mobile devices, PED, PEDs, stolen identity, vulnerability, vulnerable, vulnerable personal information, WiFi, wireless security

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Most people are unaware of how easily someone can hack into their cell phone. There are devices that allow someone (hacker) to hack into your cell phone by just dialing the number. With this technology, they can also listen to your calls, read your emails and texts, listen to the phone’s surroundings such as conversations going on in the room, gain access to your photos and your social media information or any other information stored on your phone. They can even retrieve your password to your online bank account. Read more

Hacking PEDs Is Child’s Play

Categories: Hacker, Hacking

Tags: cell phones, Computer hacking, hackers, hacking portable electronic devices

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Are PEDs (personal electronic devices) Safe from Hacking

If you think that PEDs (personal electronic devices) are safe while left unattended in a typical locker box during a secure meeting or SCIF read on……

Would you believe that a middle school child could be writing malware (software such as viruses or Trojans designed to cause damage or disruption to a computer system)? We know that kids are very curious and studies have pointed to kids of all ages becoming technically savvy at ages earlier than we expected; but would writing malware ever cross our minds?

It could start out as easy as kids trying to impress their peers by writing spyware and showing their friends that they can hack into their video game logins. This may seem insignificant at first, but some gaming accounts have credit card details allowing users to make gaming purchases. This shows how vulnerable our financial information can be.

Researchers have said, “You teach your children that you can’t take a toy without paying – so we think this type of a message needs to get to the kids when they’re writing software too.”

Compromise our “Mobility Data”

The technology that makes our life so easy allows others to compromise our “mobility data”. There is a real need to protect our information since it is so simple for even a child to appropriate. Think about the level of protection that you need to protect your trusted information and the countermeasures that need to be put in place to protect that very information.

Cell Phone Hacker Know Where You Are

Categories: RF Shielding

Tags: cell phones, hackers

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With limited inexpensive gear hackers could readily find where you as well as your mobile phone are without you having any notion. At least this is the decision of a recent study out of the University of Minnesota.

It all rests on the basic fact that the mobile phone network has to monitor your mobile in just a certain broad range so resources can be prioritized by it to supply the greatest service possible. (Most people are aware of the fact that providers must give up such location information when subpoenaed by law enforcement agencies.)

Then when a call is available in to you, the broadcasting tower will send a signal to your phone and waits for you personally to respond. A hacker has the capacity to intercept that sign before you even hear it to be answered by the call. Read more

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Can a Mobile Botnet turn your cell into a “Zombie” phone?

How Vulnerable Are PED’s (portable electronic devices) Against a Hacker?

Hacking PEDs Is Child’s Play

Are PEDs (personal electronic devices) Safe from Hacking

Compromise our “Mobility Data”

Cell Phone Hacker Know Where You Are