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Sleeping Easier Over Mobile Security – CSPnet.com


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Sleeping Easier Over Mobile Security
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A: Mobile security has several concerns in that the device itself is not as “hardened” as traditional PC or personal-computer operating systems. Secure memory is one concern when storing any sensitive data, whether it's credit-card data, passwords or …

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Oklahoma City startup hopes to make Internet security easier – Tulsa World


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Oklahoma City startup hopes to make Internet security easier
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Who's On My WiFi CEO John Kerber poses with the prototype of a new secure router. STEVE GOOCH/The Oklahoman. Posted: Monday, May 4, 2015 9:59 am. Oklahoma City startup hopes to make Internet security easier By BRIANNA BAILEY The …

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Smart home hacking is easier than you think

Last March, a very satisfied user of the Honeywell Wi-Fi Thermostat left a product review on Amazon.com that shed some light on an unexpected benefit of the smart home – revenge.

The reviewer wrote that his wife had left him, and then moved her new lover into the home they once shared, which now featured the Honeywell Wi-Fi thermostat. The jilted ex-husband could still control the thermostat through the mobile app installed on his smartphone, so he used it to make the new couple’s lives a little less happily ever after:

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10 creepy mobile apps that make spying easier

This week, the U.S. Justice Department indicted the CEO of StealthGenie on charges that the company’s apps violate federal laws against invading others’ privacy, an arrest the government has called the first of its kind. However, StealthGenie is hardly the only company that has developed tools that turn communications devices into tools for spying, stalking, and digging up information on other people. Here are 10 of the creepiest mobile apps, some of which are still available for download, but might not be for long if the prosecution against StealthGenie is successful.

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Network World Colin Neagle