by wwarren | Oct 19, 2011 | Apple, Hardware, Security, Security Alerts
Whoopsie. Apple’s new “Siri” feature, the voice-activated personal assistant built into the iPhone 4S, leaves owners’ spanking new smartphones partially unguarded. Those of us who work in the security arena have often banged on about the...
by wwarren | Oct 14, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Internet
Business consultants…..nough said. I have a client that has been scammed into going all cloud. This consultant believe in no servers, no central logins and no local storage of anything. I know this “practice management” company is totally based in...
by wwarren | Oct 5, 2011 | Apple, Hardware, Internet, Linux, Open Source, Smartphone
There’s one thing he is leaving out. Andriod is not a closed, one vendor only operating system. IOS is apple and pp-le only. I’d like to start by stating I am not a rabid Android “fanboy.” In fact, I heavily considered the iPhone 3GS back in the day...
by wwarren | Oct 3, 2011 | Hardware, Internet, Linux, Open Source, Security, Security Alerts, Smartphone
HTC screwed up big time here. If you are using the stock HTC Sense UI(and most folks are) they have enabled a backdoor into the phones base operating system that essentially allows any app with simple permissions to sniff everything on or about the phone and send it...
by wwarren | Oct 3, 2011 | Microsoft, Windows, Windows 8
Microsoft is pushing Windows 8 and the new Metro UI extremely hard. If you want to see Metro look at a Windows phone 7 equipped phone. Anybody developing for Windows xp-Win7 you best take Microsoft serious…MS wants Metro to be the new standard and they...
