Some Android mobile phones are being sold pre-infected with malware. According to a blog post by Lookout’s Jeremy Linden, “DeathRing is a Chinese Trojan that is pre-installed on a number of smartphones most popular in Asian and African countries.” Some of the…
Category: Mobile
Does your smartphone belong to you?
That expensive smartphone (iPhone, Android, whatever) that you spend your life staring at – is it yours? I mean, really under your control? Do you have complete mastery over the content that it accesses, the files it downloads and the…
Mobile phone kill switches
Microsoft and Google have just announced so-called kill switches for Windows Phone and Android devices. Apparently this is a response to a reduction of iPhone thefts reported since Apple introduced Activation Lock into iOS 7. Kill switches are great in principle but…