April 10, 2008

Mobile phone accounts hacked

Although this has happened in the States, it could quite easily happen here too! But hacking into someone’s mobile phone account can have devastating effects on the holder’s finances and it is all too easy to do, as the following will explain.
Apparently the main requirement is simply knowing the holders phone number, with this virtually [...]

December 18, 2007

Big brother is the real deal

It would seem that everything that we have feared about the government listening in on our conversations and having a little look at our emails is not just confined to films and TV programmes.
In the US the National Security Agency have the technology to do exactly that by listening in on phone calls, looking at [...]

December 10, 2007

Unlock any phone

Following the problems that were around when Apple launched the iPhone with the phone being tied to just one service provider, there has been a wave of people working on this can be overcome. In several cases there has been success with the iPhone being unlocked and therefore ready to be used on any network.
This [...]

December 4, 2007

No more privacy

In the wake of the data loss from the government where twenty five million names, addresses and bank details were lost in the post, there are calls for an improved Data protection act, however according to Dr David Murakami Wood from Newcastle University believes that it was out of date even before it came into [...]

November 15, 2007

How secure is the iPhone?

Apple has always been known for the products being safe and secure, which is probably why they are possibly getting a bit worried about the news that the iPhone their latest icon product may be at risk to attack.
It could well be possible that there are pieces of spyware and malicious software being developed that [...]