Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans After years of debate on whether to give the FBI and other federal agencies the tools to bypass smartphone security, it appears we are still light-years away from any resolution. There was a moment a few months ago when proposed legislation…
Hacking scare leads to norms for smartphones
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Amid attempts of hacking and data theft by Pakistan and China, the government has come up with a smartphone policy for officials dealing with sensitive information. To begin with, the government has put curbs on officials connecting their phones to office…
Military Smartphones Are a Hacker’s Dream
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans You would think the nation’s military would move with lightning speed to patch cell phones vulnerable to hackers, particularly after recent disclosures thatChinese hackers harvested the personal information of 21.5 million U.S. government employees and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard broke into the…
New laws to allow spies to hack into smartphones and computers ‘to be introduced in the coming weeks’
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Britain’s spies are about to be given huge new powers that will allow them to look in on people’s phones and computers, according to reports. A revived and re-named version of the hugely-controversial “Snoopers’ Charter” is set to give spies a…
Hacking Facebook and WhatsApp signals to track 4G/LTE smartphone’s precise locations
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Researchers have made a low-cost gadget to track the precise location of smartphones using 4G/LTE by hacking Facebook and WhatsApp signals. It was earlier thought that though such attacks could be targeted against the 2G and 3G enabled smartphones and 4G/LTE enabled…
Best gold-colored smartphones (2015)
2015 is a pretty good year for folks who have a thing for gold (the color, not the precious metal) and for new smartphones. Several years ago, not many relevant smartphone makers offered gold-colored handsets, but now pretty much everyone does it. In 2014, we presented a list of the…
The not so hot dragon: 5 cool smartphones powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 808
While it’s not Qualcomm’s most powerful chipset to date, the Snapdragon 808 is certainly no slouch, either. It’s got a 64-bit six-core CPU (with two ARM Cortex A57 cores and four ARM Cortex A53 cores) that can power high-end devices hassle-free, and without the overheating issues that marred the reputation…
Motorola announces which of its smartphones will be updated to Android 6.0 Marshmallow
With Android 6.0 Marshmallow scheduled to roll out to the Google Nexus device lineup next week, we’re now scrambling to get update information from various manufacturers. Motorola has spared us the trouble of dealing with unofficial sources and has published a list of the smartphones that it plans to update to…
Microsoft and Google end patent dispute over Xbox and smartphones
Google and Microsoft have agreed to a settlement of sorts in a long-running patent dispute between the two tech giants. View full post on MobileNations
Standing out: five smartphones with differentiating hardware features
Want that killer feature? Check out these five current-generation smartphones with differentiating hardware components! Due to its jack-of-all-trades nature, the smartphone was able to successfully replace a bag full of different 1990-era devices, and it doesn’t take a statistical genius to note that the smartphone’s meteoric rise to popularity has…
