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Mobile Forensics

By On March 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment

With the explosion of mobile devices there is little doubt that the number of security incidents were a mobile device is involved will also increase exponentially.

My next couple of posts will look at what is takes to perform forensics on mobile devices targeting specifically the

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Sample Blackberry Enterprise Server Policy

By On January 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The policy below provides an example of security measures that should be taken towards protecting a corporate network from the threats presented by mobile devices.

These configurations and options should be “taken with a grain of salt”; as a guideline to what features should be set to mitigate the risk of smart-phone being used as [...]

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Locking Down The Blackberry Network

By On January 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Early last year India threatened to discontinue Blackberry service if Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the Blackberry did not allow the Indian Government to monitor the Blackberry network traffic raising serious security concerns. Here are a few articles from PCWorld, InfoWorld, and CNet.

Now president-elect Barack [...]

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Google Maps For Blackberry Adds Street View

By On November 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

As I was driving home from the Blackberry Bold Experience Event last night, I received an upgrade prompt from my Blackberry 8820 for Google Maps. On the way home I upgraded to version 2.3.2 which to my pleasant surprise provided “Street View” giving you the capability of viewing imagery while driving or walking.

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