Why Lock your Phone?

Nathan Simon — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:17:16 +0000

Your the smart savy business type kind of guy right? Do you take pictures with your phone? Perhaps you have DropBox installed and synced with all your corporate data. Question is how well do you guard that data?

Symantec just released a study where they intentionally lost 50 smartphones in restaurants, malls, student unions, and all around Silion Valley, Washington, DC, New York, LA, and Ottawa.

Read more here for some crazy statistics on what people do when they get a hold of a phone that isn’t theirs…

Trojan that targets Skype users.

Nathan Simon — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:16:23 +0000

An Australian website posted that the Skype Trojan can log VoIP calls. Here is an insert

“An infected machine will use the software that handles audio processing within a computer and save the call data as an MP3. The file is then sent over the Internet to a predefined server where the attacker can listen to the recorded conversations.”

It is also possible that this trojan can affect other popular VoIP applications, although this isn’t proven.

The Trojan is named Trojan.Peskyspy. So to all you Skype users do some reading and research on how to protect yourself. Here are some articles that you all can browse through.

Trojan.Peskspy | Symantec

Trojan.Peskspy Blog by a Symantec Employee

And here is an interesting story about how Trojan.Peskspy attacks Skype encryption though Windows API.

Happy Surfing!

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Why Lock your Phone?

Trojan that targets Skype users.