Tag Archive for: Messages

Wickr: Free texting app has military-grade encryption, messages self-destruct

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If you have an Android or an iPhone, and if you value privacy and security, then please do yourself a tremendous favor today by installing Wickr, a self-destructing messaging app that uses military-grade encryption for texts, pictures, audio, video and PDFs and also exceeds NSA’s compliancy standards for Top Secret communications. Equally terrific, the experts behind Wickr say it’s your data; you own…
Ms. Smith’s blog

WhatsApp users, ignore messages from ‘Priyanka’ – it’s a worm

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What’s up with WhatsApp? A worm is changing contact group names to “Priyanka” as it crawls through, and sometimes renames all contact names in worst-case scenarios.
Naked Security – Sophos

Mobile Firefox OS & Wikipedia to be delivered for free via text messages

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Mozilla has created an open platform for mobile phones that “is an extension of the Firefox experience you know and love so you can expect all the security, privacy, customization and user control Firefox has always delivered.” 
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Text Messages: Android More Secure Than iPhone – Auto-o-Mobile

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Text Messages: Android More Secure Than iPhone
Auto-o-Mobile
It is safer to send texts from an Android or Blackberry handset than it is from an iPhone reports InformationWeek. Recently it was found that there is a flaw in iOS for the iPhone that could allow people to hack into any SMS message sent from the iPhone.

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