He may be on his way into the White House in a few days, but Blackberry loving Barack Obama will be forced to give up his business phone if he intends to stay there.  He has been told that the phone is a security risk and he must hand it in when he becomes the [...]

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Keep an eye out for the safety of your Nokia, there is a new bug out there that could be on its way to attacking your phone.  Actually I say a new bug but in fact it’s an old bug that has recently emerged into the limelight.  The bug was developed in the earlier days [...]

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ISP adware firm Phorm have been rocked today by the departure of four of its directors quitting, including recently appointed chairman Steven Heyer. Norman Lamont, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer has been named as one of the company’s replacements.
Heyer was employed just three months ago as non-executive chairman, and his leaving was swiftly followed [...]

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The company suspended an unconfirmed amount of staff last week, for browsing the records, but it has emerged that the workers could only see call logs, times and the numbers that he called – they had no access to text messages or any of his voicemails.

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A group of Verizon Wireless staff landed have in hot water after they were caught snooping their way through newly elected president of the United States, Barack Obama’s, phone bill to see who he was calling.

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With reports of cybercrime flying around the place, most people associate it with China and Brazil, but a recent study shows that a huge proportion of attacks originate from good ‘ole US of A

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Police in London questioned British Telecom (BT) this week as part of a probe into the covert wiretapping and profiling of tens of thousands of its customers during tests of Phorms adware system.

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