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A security lapse made it possible for unwelcome strangers to peruse personal photos posted on Facebook Inc.’s popular online hangout, circumventing a recent upgrade to the Web site’s privacy controls.

Every day sees another headline that illustrates how data protection has been ignored resulting in vital data that has been exposed or lost. Yet it is common knowledge that enterprises have a vested interest, and a legal obligation to effectively protect data.

With the large number of web applications for the iPhone, Apple lists more than 600, the Mobile Safari browser plays a large role. Recently a Denial of Service(DoS) vulnerability was discovered in iPhone’s web browser.

Got a smartphone running Windows Mobile 5 or 6, or Symbian v9 Series 60 3rd edition, and worried that some new virus or malware is going to zap your phone, or you’re already affected by SMS spam? Then Kaspersky’s new ‘Mobile Security 7.0’ may well put your fears to rest.

Mobile operators are being warned to brace themselves for a global upsurge in mobile messaging abuse. The growth of mobile messaging, reductions in message delivery costs, inherent network vulnerabilities, and new mobile marketing initiatives are converging to create a perfect storm for abuse, according to mobile security firm Cloudmark.

F-Secure is partnering with Toshiba Information Systems (Mobile Communications Division), to provide F-Secure Mobile Anti-virus for Toshiba’s Windows Mobile smart devices throughout Europe. A trial version of the F-Secure Mobile Anti-virus solution will be included with Toshiba smart devices using the Windows Mobile platform.

Mobile operators are being warned to take security more seriously as the rise of the mobile internet and richer data services creates new security challenges and raises the spectre of mobile malware.

Mobile devices are not that dangerous in terms of malware, claims IT management solutions provider CA. The CA 2008 Internet Security Outlook report, released last month, concludes that the threat from mobile malware remain insignificantly low. This conclusion comes from the research findings by CA’s Global Security Advisor Team.

Finnish security vendor F-Secure has announced a partnership with mobile phone company Sony Ericsson to supply mobile security to selected smartphone devices. F-Secure will provide a trial version of Mobile Security 3.3 UIQ on selected Sony Ericsson UIQ devices.

We have been working on an interesting Symbian worm over the last few days. It affects S60 2nd Edition phones. The SymbOS/Beselo family of worms is very similar to Commwarrior. In fact at first we actually misidentified Beselo.A as Commwarrior.Y. Like Commwarrior, Beselo worms spread via MMS and Bluetooth using social engineering to trick users […]