MacBook and Android hacked *easily* at Sochi, BB too?
- Phone hacking, the practice of intercepting telephone calls or voicemail messages without the consent of the phone's owner.
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Posted.03-05-14 09:33 PMLike 0 -
I can strongly encrypt the data on my device without an app and, most importantly, nobody has ever jailbroken (rooted) a BlackBerry.
Additionally, my radios are encrypted at the firmware level.
Further to that, though the "universal" key for BBM is well known, you still need the UDID, and that's very hard to spoof on a firmware-encrypted, root-proof system.
Etc. And so on...axeman1000 likes this.03-05-14 10:04 PMLike 1 - Your statement is simply incorrect. You presume that the only difference between BlackBerry and an iPhone is BES10. What rubbish.
Does it not even dawn on you why governments won't let iPhone on their secure servers. Have you not read a newspapers inthe last three weeks? I mean really, the world finds out yet again about a massive hole in iOS and how hackers have been exploiting the obvious weakness. Please educate yourself as to the foundation of secure communications . You are being naive to the extreme.
Posted via CB10p_r_a_g_m_a likes this.03-06-14 01:01 PMLike 1 - The data stored on a password locked BlackBerry is more secure than the data stored on many apple and android os phones, because the data stored on a BlackBerry cannot be accessed with Cellebrite UFED equipment. Someone with access to such equipment can plug the equipment into password locked apple and android phones, circumvent their passwords, and download all the data stored on them in a matter of minutes. This readily available equipment does not work against a password locked BlackBerry. So no, other phones are not as secure as BlackBerry.CerveloJohn likes this.03-08-14 02:05 PMLike 1
- Hacked Within Minutes: Sochi Visitors Face Internet Minefield - Video on NBCNews.com
Interesting report from the Sochi russia olympics. Can they hack into BB's this easily?
"my phone is more secure" is a rallying call by people using a small marketshare device, and it's not selling any more phones than people on Windows Phone who keep telling people "I have MS Office on my phone". Nobody cares about BB security because there is no malware "problem" on iOS or Android despite the fact that both CB and WPC members love to spread this so-called "malware problem" around as a defense, just like nobody cares about having MS Office on a smartphone. Once their respective CEO's clue into this they'll get out of the single digits...maybe. These malware posts are as misinformed as the continued posts that Android lags as if it was still 2011.Last edited by xchange; 03-08-14 at 03:08 PM.
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Posted via CB1003-24-14 08:35 AMLike 0 - Yeah I concur! Again you don't help android fans by posting such falsehoods the truth is out there. But hey whatever rocks your boat. Having been a victim of a banking app scam on my nifty new Samsung S4, I think that I can and will also make my opinions heard.
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Sent from my XT1060 using Mobile Nations mobile app03-24-14 08:52 AMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1003-24-14 10:09 AMLike 0 - That piece was pretty much a FUD (see here for explanation) story from an american news outlet targeted at Russia. If you want to know more about it, read this blog entry going into detail why you can pretty much just discard the whole story.03-24-14 12:22 PMLike 0
- FYI: This is coming from Google themselves for those who really are interested in the truth on Android. Discern /Glean as you may.
That's a real problem on Android, where a design focused on permissive freedom has also made securing the devices effectively impossible. Samsung has attempted to address this problem for corporate users with Knox, a layer designed to limit Android's freedom and therefore give it a layer of security closer to iOS. However, most of Samsung's smartphones don't even support Knox, rendering the majority of Android device shipments impossible to secure.
Android's malware monopoly
Last month, a report by Cisco detailed that 99 percent of mobile malware targets Android, echoing the "staggering rate" of malware growth observed last summer by Juniper Networks in a report that noted that "77 percent of Android's threats could be largely eliminated today if all Android devices had the latest OS. Currently only 4 percent do."
When asked about Android's malware problems, Pichai (the Chrome OS executive who replaced Andy Rubin as the head of Google's Android development early last year) answered by saying that Android is not really "designed to be safe" but rather to provide "freedom."
For further reading :http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits...ndroid-phones/
For those still in doubt :http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...roid-apps.html
For IOS users:
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/02...r-ssl-bug-fix/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...n-targets-did/
Apple's iOS7 PRNG Weaker Than Previous Version (March 14 & 16, 2014)
Apple changes its internal pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) with iOS 7 and researchers are saying that it is weaker than the previous version. The weakness could allow attackers to more easily exploit a vulnerability in the operating system's kernel.
http://www.sans.org/newsletters/news...issue=22&rss=Y
Posted via CB10Last edited by crackbrry fan; 03-24-14 at 03:36 PM.
03-24-14 02:57 PMLike 0 - FYI: This is coming from Google themselves for those who really are interested in the truth on Android. Discern /Glean as you may.
That's a real problem on Android, where a design focused on permissive freedom has also made securing the devices effectively impossible. Samsung has attempted to address this problem for corporate users with Knox, a layer designed to limit Android's freedom and therefore give it a layer of security closer to iOS. However, most of Samsung's smartphones don't even support Knox, rendering the majority of Android device shipments impossible to secure.
Android's malware monopoly
Last month, a report by Cisco detailed that 99 percent of mobile malware targets Android, echoing the "staggering rate" of malware growth observed last summer by Juniper Networks in a report that noted that "77 percent of Android's threats could be largely eliminated today if all Android devices had the latest OS. Currently only 4 percent do."
When asked about Android's malware problems, Pichai (the Chrome OS executive who replaced Andy Rubin as the head of Google's Android development early last year) answered by saying that Android is not really "designed to be safe" but rather to provide "freedom."
For further reading :U.S. Government Issues Warning About Security on Android Phones - NYTimes.com
For those still in doubt :10 MILLION compromised Android apps, experts reveal | Mail Online
For IOS users:
iOS 7.0.6 update patched a major SSL bug, OS X still vulnerable
Apple’s Security Breach Should Scare You More Than Target’s Did | TheBlaze.com
Apple's iOS7 PRNG Weaker Than Previous Version (March 14 & 16, 2014)
Apple changes its internal pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) with iOS 7 and researchers are saying that it is weaker than the previous version. The weakness could allow attackers to more easily exploit a vulnerability in the operating system's kernel.
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Look how many steps you have to go through to allow apps not from the play store:
Then another warning:
03-24-14 04:24 PMLike 0 - FYI: This is coming from Google themselves for those who really are interested in the truth on Android. Discern /Glean as you may.
That's a real problem on Android, where a design focused on permissive freedom has also made securing the devices effectively impossible. Samsung has attempted to address this problem for corporate users with Knox, a layer designed to limit Android's freedom and therefore give it a layer of security closer to iOS. However, most of Samsung's smartphones don't even support Knox, rendering the majority of Android device shipments impossible to secure.
Android's malware monopoly
Last month, a report by Cisco detailed that 99 percent of mobile malware targets Android, echoing the "staggering rate" of malware growth observed last summer by Juniper Networks in a report that noted that "77 percent of Android's threats could be largely eliminated today if all Android devices had the latest OS. Currently only 4 percent do."
When asked about Android's malware problems, Pichai (the Chrome OS executive who replaced Andy Rubin as the head of Google's Android development early last year) answered by saying that Android is not really "designed to be safe" but rather to provide "freedom."
For further reading :http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits...ndroid-phones/
For those still in doubt :http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...roid-apps.html
For IOS users:
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/02...r-ssl-bug-fix/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...n-targets-did/
Apple's iOS7 PRNG Weaker Than Previous Version (March 14 & 16, 2014)
Apple changes its internal pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) with iOS 7 and researchers are saying that it is weaker than the previous version. The weakness could allow attackers to more easily exploit a vulnerability in the operating system's kernel.
http://www.sans.org/newsletters/news...issue=22&rss=Y
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Android can be "vulnerable" if you aren't careful. So is leaving your house unlocked.
Posted via my Nexus 10.03-24-14 04:31 PMLike 0 -
- We can spin how much we like, the truth is out there, we can try to call it fan boism etc. I am NOT new to using various platforms, Good luck with your choices! The true fanatics are the ones turning a blind eye and trying to convince others differently.
Posted via CB1003-24-14 05:01 PMLike 0 -
Posted via CB1003-24-14 05:12 PMLike 0 - You take your tech advice from bankers? I see. You're really on a roll here, even after the beating on tech knowledge you're taking in this thread. You do realize the decision makers in organizations like that are all upper management types who listen to people who actually know the field like... never.03-24-14 05:18 PMLike 0
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Posted via my Nexus 10.03-24-14 05:19 PMLike 0 - You take your tech advice from bankers? I see. You're really on a roll here, even after the beating on tech knowledge you're taking in this thread. You do realize the decision makers in organizations like that are all upper management types who listen to people who actually know the field like... never.
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Posted via my Nexus 10.03-24-14 06:32 PMLike 0
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