Hacking news from FierceMobileIT

A hacking contest scheduled to kick off March 18 at the CanSecWest security conference will award cash prizes of $10,000 to anyone who is able to break into popular smartphones such as Apple's iPhone... Read more...

We are all familiar with President-elect Obama's fondness with his BlackBerry. Indeed, at a recent interview with CNBC, Obama was recorded as saying, "I'm still clinging to my BlackBerry. They're... Read more...

You've got to hand it to Apple: their iPhone has certainly had an impact on the market. Of course, at least one... Read more...

You can't say that they didn't warn us. Apple said that unlocking hacks were likely to cause iPhones to... Read more...

You know they're out there and they're after your data--and the data of your customers. But do you know precisely how the underground economy works to turn millions of records into billions of... Read more...

This week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Kaspersky Labs will introduce anti-virus protection for Windows Mobile and Read more...

San Francisco may be home to first municipal WiFi network. Article BlackBerry maker sues Samsung for patent infringement. Read more...

It's been heralded as a future risk, but actual malware has begun hitting the mobile user environment, especially in Japan and Europe. There's still plenty of time to put some security in place... Read more...

There were several encouraging news items this week about mobile devices and advancement on the open source technology front. Given Linux's stability and tougher security shell, open source could be... Read more...

Well, the predictions we started hearing late last year--that the mobile environment would be the next battleground of attack by worm writers, hackers and virus makers--is actually bearing truth a... Read more...