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A study by scientists of Intel Labs, Duke University and Pennsylvania State University says that few Android apps are sending out private information like your current location information (could be GPS coordinates or coarse network based location details) and other sensitive personal data like IMEI, phone number and SIM number to, possibly the advertisers and app content servers. These information, claims the scientists are being sent without any kind of notification or permission of the Many of our feature rich high-end mobile phones or Smartphones carry a lot of our personal and business data, be it photos, videos, email, notes, documents and not to forget, the precious Phone book. These toys are very pricey, many shell out large part of their salary. It pains a lot when one loses their valuable phone. The pain is multitude as the loss of data adds up to the loss of mobile itself. Many I know 
When Google launched the new Latitude application few months back, users were ecstatic (!); ideas and feature requests were poured out with all the imagination available as where and how this can be used (or misused). Now, Google has come out with applications based on Latitude; first among them is sharing your location with Gtalk buddies or display as a badge on your website. 
Well, yes it’s true. I cleared the CISSP exam (Certified Information System Security Professional) from ISC2 (http://www.isc2.org/) last week and just few days away from getting the actual certificate. The last step in certification, the endorsement, is going on and might get over in couple of weeks. The sheer success, the help I got and my efforts compelled me to share my study pattern and exam plans with thecommunity. Hope it will be of Networkworld.com is reporting an interesting news. This is in a series of crackers, black hat hackers being imprisioned for their computer crimes. All praises to law enforcement agencies. “An employee of search engine startup Mahalo has been sentenced to four years in prison for infecting as many as 250,000 computers with malicious botnet computer code. John Schiefer was sentenced Wednesday in federal court after previously pleading guilty to hacking, fraud and wiretapping charges. |
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