If the identity thief has set up phone service in your name or is making unauthorized calls that may be originating from and are billed to your cell phone or is using your calling card and PIN, then don’t waste any time, get hold of your phone company and cancel the account and/or the calling [...]

Inside and outside government, professionals increasingly carry data on their cell phones, including e-mail messages, documents, videos and instant messages. And there are those ? such as law enforcement officers, some employers and, yes, hackers ? who want to get at that data without the owner?s permission.Until recently, however, the tools to do that weren?t [...]

Five officials in Sweden from mobile phone operator Ericsson are suspected of defrauding several billion kronor (millions of euros), Swedish agency TT reported on Sunday. The five suspects allegedly created false bills between 1998 and 1999 in order to escape fiscal controls.If the appeals court judge, who is set to announce a verdict Thursday, pays [...]

Identify theft and the value of protecting personal data is on people’s minds more today than it ever has been. The fact that laptops are small, relatively lightweight and unbelievably easy to steal makes that even more of a problem, coupled with the fact that you can get 500GB of storage into a 2.5? portable [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are suing the U.S. Department of Justice over mobile phone tracking.

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An Irish company, 3G Doctor, is employing the until now redundant camera on the front of 3G phones to provide remote medical consultations, especially in country areas. A hospital in Da Nang City, Vietnam, has developed software to transform a mobile phone into a database of treatments and medical knowledge that can be looked at [...]

The mobile phone as mobile computer now has the added dimension of being a secure storage device for personal health records, with a rollout of an application by Blue Cross in Pennsylvania.

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Are you fed up spending hours on hold to your broadband provider’s overseas call centre every time you inexplicably lose your connection? A dongle could be the answer - and it could save you money too.Dongles are plug-in-and-go devices that look like USB memory sticks and work like mini-modems. You can buy one from a [...]

A Spanish modder has developed an easy to use privilege escalation hack for Symbian S60 3rd Edition phones. The hack provides unlimited access to the phone’s file system. With this access any number of modifications can be made.
Mobile modding is a very dynamic scene. See our recent Motorola Razr post— and of course [...]

There’s an ongoing SMS / e-mail fraud underway.
People are receiving text messages to their phones that look something like this:

If you send an e-mail to the listed address, this is what you’ll get back:

From: Gsm Notification (gsmn92@yahoo.com)Date: 11.06.2008 11:49
FROM THEDESK OF THE PROMOTION OFFICER,GSM MOBILE SWEEPSTAKES PROMO.CALLE CLAUDIO COELLO 41,  28001 MADRID,SPAIN.
UNITED KINGDOM [...]

It is now possible for mobile phone hackers to bypass the security system of the Symbian OS 9 based S60 3rd Edition phones with a mobile application. Symbian OS 9 based S60 3rd Edition is the market-l…
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Echoing what airline officials have said in the past, a large majority of passengers surveyed about the use of cell phones on airplanes in flight rejected the idea.

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