CallWall Blocks Unwanted Phone Calls
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CallWall is a new utility that acts like a firewall for your telephone, enabling you to whitelist and blacklist callers.
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Once thriving, call centers now are shrinking, a trend that could threaten thousands of jobs. Because of lower wages overseas, technological advances and new do-not-call regulations, call
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Skype warns users password-stealing Trojan horse is making the rounds, disguised as a Skype security plug-in
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Cell phone can respond to motion by dialing numbers or ending a call.
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If you are in Sudan it is a "missed  call." In Ethiopia it is a "miskin" or a "pitiful" call. In  other parts of Africa it is a case of "flashing," "beeping" or  in French-speaking areas "bipage."
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A new computerized service enables customers to create phony outbound phone numbers in order to mask their telephone identities.
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What's the proper use of a speaker phone? A colleague uses hers to listen to voicemail messages and to make all of her outgoing calls so that I can hear the dialing. It's very distracting and annoying.
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Here's how nontechnical users can secure their own instant-messaging conversations such that an attacker is unable to listen in (be it the government or a nosy neighbor).
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Company debuts technology that will make it possible to send false information about an incoming call.
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Cell phone owners currently enjoy a kind of privacy through obscurity: Wireless numbers aren&#39;t listed with directory assistance.
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WASHINGTON-- One year and 64 million phone numbers later, the legality of the nation&#39;s &quot;Do Not Call List&quot; was upheld by the US Supreme Court yesterday.
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(InfoWorld) - Security researchers at SPI Labs are warning iPhone users not to use a special feature that lets them dial telephone numbers over the Web using the iPhone's Safari browser. The feature was created to give iPhone users a simple way to dial phone numbers listed on Web pages, but according to SPI, the feature could be misused. [ Blog:Â Researchers point to iPhone security riskÂ ] Attackers could exploit a bug in this feature to trick a victim into making phone calls to expensive "900" numbers or even keep track of phone calls made by the victim over the Web, said Billy Hoffman, lead researcher with SPI Labs. The iPhone could even be stopped from dialing out, or set to dial out endlessly, he said. "Because this vulnerability can be launched from Web sites, everybody who has an iPhone has the potential to get exploited," Hoffman said In order for the attack to work, the bad guys would have to either trick iPhone users into visiting a malicious Web site or make a legitimate Web site send untrustworthy information to the iPhone using what's known as a cross-site scripting attack. "Any time someone could control the content that's getting sent to the iPhone [the possibility of an attack] exists," Hoffman said. SPI is not releasing detailed information on how the Web dialing feature could be exploited, but the company contacted Apple on July 6 and is working with the iPhone maker to prevent these types of attacks, Hoffman said. Apple could not be reached immediately for comment. Because Apple is encouraging software developers to write Web applications for the iPhone that use Safari, the browser has come under particular scrutiny from iPhone hackers. Researchers had previously noted that Safari could be used to misdial numbers, but Hoffman's post suggests that this could be done more easily than previously thought. Not everybody thought the SPI findings were groundbreaking, including Dave Aitel, CTO with Immunity Inc. "If you can make calls from the Web browser, you can make fake calls from the Web browser," he said. So should iPhone users stop using the Web to place calls? "Yes," said Aitel. "If they know a lot of hackers and are a special target."
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In a Feb. 7 story about cellular "spam," The Associated Press erroneously described a list published by the Federal Communications Commission aimed at stopping unwanted commercial e-mail and text messages sent to cell phones. It is a list of domain names to which telemarketers may not send e-mail without permission from cell phone subscribers, not listings of the Web sites that transmit unwanted data.
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Today's blog post discusses methods with which a non-technical user can secure their own instant messaging conversations such that an attacker is unable to listen in (be they the government or a nosy neighbor sniffing the wireless network from next door).
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In an effort to stop scams that cause unwitting Internet users to get charged premium rates for calls placed by software surreptitiously installed on their PCs, Ireland is going to block outgoing calls to 13 ...
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Flaw in the way the Net phone software handles Web links could enable an attacker to launch arbitrary code on some Macs.
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Once attacked by Skulls, the only things the smartphones can do is make and receive calls. The anti-virus lab F-Secure said it had produced guidelines for users to help them remove the program and get their phones working.