Articles tagged with: Spyware

Etisalat Denies BlackBerry Software Upgrade was Spyware

..alat has denied that a recent software patch it sent to its customer's BlackBerry handsets was spyware designed to allow it to monitor communications. Abdulla Hashim, vice president of enterprise solutions for Etisalat insisted in an interview  more

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Trust in IT software vendors under strain

..of exploit, but a vendor hacker could turn to embedding the spyware in the code of the product, making it much more difficult to detect. Insofar as this threat impacts on critical national infrastructure and national security we can expect gov more

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Mobile Users Do Not Take Security Precautions - Report

..iruses remains low, there has been increasing activity with spyware applications for mobile phones. Such applications make it possible to get covert access to all the functions of the affected phone, including recording of phone calls, access t more

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Vodafone Found Spy Software After Complaints

..tified," a Vodafone spokesman said. He said the spyware could also have been used to attack a fixed line or rival mobile network. There have been no similar problems on any of its other networks across Europe since the Greek incident and the company  more

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