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Baby Steps in Mobility: Pentagon OKs Dell-Only Android
Published on 28 Dec, 2011 at 11:30 in Mobility | Viewed 16 times | No Comments
The Defense Department is allowing a second mobile platform to access its networks, but it is not quite yet a “bring your own device” approach.
The Pentagon’s Security Technical Implementation Guide covers Dell’s version of Android 2.2, according to Stars and Stripes. This version is the only Pentagon-approved version.
Dell’s Venue smartphone is…
IBM Adds Social Net Tools Ahead of Mobile Rush in Office
Published on 8 Dec, 2011 at 15:09 in Mobility | Viewed 7 times | No Comments
The “Bring Your Own Device” trend is all the rage at workplaces across the country and IBM unveiled new social networking and collaboration applications Wednesday to help employees get on the company’s secure enterprise networks.
IBM itself is also part of the BYOD trend, as previously covered here on The New New Internet. IBM said in its…
Could Bringing Own Device to Work Also Bring Hackers?
Published on 21 Nov, 2011 at 14:26 in Cyber | Viewed 36 times | No Comments
Federal employees who bring their own iPhones and Android devices to work may also bring a growing risk of hackers creating chaos, according to a forecast from M86 Security Labs.
The network security firm is expected to release its annual prediction of the top security threats to both businesses and government, according to…
CIBER Launches Mobility App For Salespeople On-the-Go
Published on 31 Oct, 2011 at 16:00 in Mobility | Viewed 15 times | No Comments
CIBER has launched a mobile sales application today that aims to give salespeople on-the-go a way to work more easily and productively. The app culminates real-time account, product and activity information from the SAP ERP and SAP customer relationship management application to Apple iPhones or iPads.
The app provides salespeople with locations, maps, contact information and store-finder functionality…
IBM Allowing Employees to ‘Bring Your Own Device’
Published on 31 Oct, 2011 at 12:54 in Mobility | Viewed 38 times | No Comments
IBM is allowing its employees to bring their own smartphones and tablets to work, IBM’s CTO for mobility told Computerworld.
Bill Bodin said that by the end of the year, 100,000 IBM employees will be able to connect their own devices to the company’s internal networks, with an additional 100,000 to come on board by the end of…
SAIC Evolves Hybrid Language Translation Platform; iPhone App in Works
Science Applications International Corp. is continuing to venture into the language translation field, releasing new SAIC Linguistics software and software-as-a-service offerings and laying the foundation for a commercial iPhone application.
The company said its November 2010 acquisition of AppTek has enabled it to provide a hybrid linguistics platform that employs both statistical and rule-based machine translation technologies for text and…
Mobile Malware Report Predicts ‘Significant’ Uptick in Cellphone Attacks
Published on 10 Jun, 2011 at 11:44 in GovCon Industry | Viewed 190 times | No Comments
On the heels of a recent study warning about mobile malware emerging as the new frontier of cyber crime comes another report that discusses the evolution of both smart devices and the threats that target them.
The “Smartphone Malware Report,” by Panda Security and Spain’s National Cyber-Security Advisory Council, follows…
iPhone Users More Likely to Become Phished than BlackBerry Owners
Published on 5 Jan, 2011 at 6:52 in Cloud | Viewed 218 times | No Comments
A survey conducted by anti-phishing software maker Trusteer found the first respondents to click on compromised links are those using smartphones, in particular iPhones.
Additionally, mobile Internet users are three times more likely than desktop users to give out personal information to scammers. Help Net Security points out it is often hard to see a link’s URL in a smartphone browser window, which makes it…PayPal Patches iPhone App
PayPal has released a patch for a vulnerability in its iPhone application that could allow hackers access accounts at the online financial transactions service, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The flaw only affected users of the PayPal applications on iPhones connected to the Internet through unsecured Wi-Fi networks, and did not impact the company’s Android app or users of the PayPal.com website, according to WSJ.
A hacker…
Apple Fixes Jailbreakme Flaw
Apple has fixed a browse-and-be-hacked flaw in Mac OS X, which was exploited by a website called Jailbreakme.
The flaw was one of 13 fixed in an update released Tuesday, according to The Register.
The iPhone, the iPad and the iPod touch were susceptible to the vulnerability. Jailbreakme allowed users to jailbreak their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch merely by visiting the website and click a slider. The system worked even…
