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AT&T forcing Data plans on all smartphones?

Taylor Scott — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:21:30 +0000

starting to hear rumors, and www.phonescoop.com says its confirmed that on Sep 6th, all new or upgraded smartphones, (WinMo, RIM, Symbian, and iPhone) will be required to sign a data plan.

As a person who needs Smartphones to be able to use a phone, this is damning news. Now those of us who like the functionality of a smartphone must now be forced into paying for data, no matter if we want it, or even use it.

Up until now this is what kept me happy with AT&T, it unlike its rival VZ did not force you into a data plan just because of what you “are” able to do with your device.
Looks like AT&T is getting greedy.

If this turns out to indeed be true, I will be letting AT&T know how unhappy I am with forcing this on us.
If I want data, or am going to use data…
Guess what AT&T, I’ll pay for data!

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HTC Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1 devices vulnerable to bluetooth attacks!

Taylor Scott — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:12:44 +0000

I was browsing my latest tweets on Twitter, when an interesting article caught my attention.

Me being an HTC FUZE user my self, I found my self reading the article, and figured this was something that all HTC users needed to be aware of. I will give most of the article, but if you wish to read the actual article, for more info click here.

If you have an HTC smartphone running Windows Mobile 6 or Windows Mobile 6.1, you may want to think twice before connecting to an untrusted device using
Bluetooth. A vulnerability in an HTC driver installed on these phones can allow an attacker to access any file on the phone or upload malicious code using
Bluetooth, a Spanish security researcher warned Tuesday.

“HTC devices running Windows Mobile 6 and Windows Mobile 6.1 are prone to a directory traversal vulnerability in the Bluetooth OBEX FTP Service,” security
researcher Alberto Moreno Tablado said in an e-mail exchange.

HTC handsets running Windows Mobile 5 are not affected. For the attack to work, the targeted device must have Bluetooth enabled and file sharing over Bluetooth activated.

“This connection can be done either by standard Bluetooth pairing or taking advantage of the Bluetooth MAC spoofing attack,” Moreno Tablado said, referring
to a process where the attacking device attempts to convince the target that it’s another device on its list of paired devices.
The directory traversal vulnerability allows an attacker to move from a phone’s Bluetooth shared folder into other folders, giving them access to contact
details, e-mails, pictures or other data stored on the phone. They can use this access to read files or upload software, including malicious code.
Users worried about the vulnerability should avoid pairing their phones with an untrusted handset or computer. They may also want to delete any devices
that are already paired with their phones, he said.

Because the driver, obexfile.dll, is an HTC driver, only handsets from the company are affected. However, HTC is the world’s largest manufacturer of Windows
Mobile handsets, selling phones under its own brand as well as making phones under contract for other companies. That means millions of users are potentially
vulnerable.

Moreno Tablado tested the vulnerability on a range of HTC handsets, including the Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, Touch Cruise, Touch Find, S710 and S740, among
others. “It seems that HTC includes this driver, which is vulnerable, in all the devices running Windows Mobile 6 and Windows Mobile 6.1, as a part of
the Bluetooth stack,” he said.

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Phone Creeper Espionage Suite, windows mobile Ultimate Spy App!

Taylor Scott — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:39:54 +0000

Guys, are you curious what your “Old Lady” is up too when your not around, or when she’s out on a “girls night out”?

Well, worry no more. I present Phone Creeper Espionage Suite!

Chetstriker has created an app that will help a lot of parinoid guys sleep at night, (and get some in major trouble if the old lady finds out you’ve put this app on her phone).

This app will work on any WinMo phone running WM 5 and later.

You simply install the app on the windows device, then send SMS’s to the phone to start spying. Here are just a few things you can do:

secretly and remotely read incoming / outgoing sms
secretly and remotely view call history
create a pop-up message on phone
send a secret fart sound
secretly and remotely listen to person. (Initiates silent call back of person to your phone with thier speaker phone enabled)

It is all remotely controled by another phone. Simply send a SMS command to the phone and start spying.

Just be sure of your state and local laws on invading others privacy with this app.

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