Scream when your Mobile Phone is Stolen

A new service from security experts at Remote XT delivers a high-pitch earpiercing sound to your mobile phone when it is reported stolen and a meesage on the phones screen displaying "This phone is stolen".

The phone becomes automatically disabled, with contact numbers, texts, images and emails removed, even if the SIM card is removed rendering the phone useless.

The service works on all mobile carrriers which makes it easy to deploy anywhere.

Cell Phone Data Eraser

Your phone contains private data that you may not want others to see like PIN's, photos, contact names and numbers. Before giving your phone to your little sister you might want to get rid of all this data and if you don't know how you can get step-by-step instruction at Wireless Recycling just by entering your phone model.

If your cell phone stores contacts and other information on a SIM card, take the card out. The SIM card doesn't necessarily store all the data on your phone, though. It may store only your phone book, while call logs, photos, memos, and other information might reside in the phone's internal memory.

To get rid of everything, you may need to employ multiple reset commands; and those commands aren't always easy to find in a modern cell phone's complex menus. Many of todays smartphones require you to enter ten different commands to delete all data, including text messages, phone numbers, call timers, and logs. But remember, if you want to keep the numbers stored in your SIM card, by all means remove it before you delete anything!

In a recent article published in the New York Times should get your attention to the dangers of not wiping out your phone data completely.

FExplorer - ported to Series 60 3rd Edition

First screenshot of FExplorer running on Series 60 3rd edition on N80 but the creator Dominique Hugo needs your help to iron out some bugs related to security and certificate issues.

"I have some troubles with the security, certificate, FE installs fine on the device but I get a security message when I run it !, if someone can give me some help, this will be very appreciated !!"

Calling all Symbian S60 3rd Edition gurus to give Dominique some tips on solving his bugs, after all he has delivered a great product to us all.

Blackberry Security Exploit

The BlackBerry Attack Toolkit also known as BProxy enables a Blackberry to act as a proxy server between the LAN the Blackberry is connected to and an external internet hacker.

Stolen mobiles 'will be blocked', Phone Hackers Left to Rot In Jail

The BBC — AKA the Benny Hill Network — reports that by the year's end, in the UK:

Around 80% of mobile phones will be blocked on all five UK networks within 48 hours of being reported stolen in future, industry leaders have pledged.
That pledge is part of a charter to reduce phone crime launched by the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum.

Crappy sentence structure aside, this sounds good. But I'm also freaked out. What's next? Shutting down phones with pirated MP3s on them? The article also points out another law in the UK: "Those convicted under the Mobile Telephones (Re-programming) Act 2002 can face up to five years in prison."

Limey phone Haxxors, you are about to be owned

Pantech PG-6200: Cellphone With a Fingerprint Reader

The Pantech PG-6200 has stats that, on a Friday afternoon, I can't even pretend to care about. What does make me perk up is the Pantech's fingerprint scanner that can be used for biometric security. Scan your digits to lock and unlock the phone. Sweet, eh? Stats? Oh fine. Those, and more details, after the jump.

Siemens SL-65 Interceptor - The Spy Phone

So the premise of spying on someone, whatever the reasons, is definitely not new to cellphones. The incessant paranoia keeps gadgets like these popping up every so often -- but the Siemens SL-65 takes high-end voyeurism to an even darker corner. As you'd probably imagine, you dial up the device's super-secret number to instantly surreptitious listen in on whatever's happening up to five meters away from the mic. For even more "proof" of an ongoing scandal, the phone will automatically send the caller an SMS whenever a call is made or received, so you can spend ever more time wondering who's calling at 1:00AM. Spyphones even goes so far as claiming no technician can ever identify its secretive nature (unless of course they read Engadget), but at €1,699.00 ($2,169.96 USD), the SL-65 is only slightly less expensive than a private investigator -- and we do stress slightly.

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