Mar 18
The latest Snowden-leaked information on the NSA arrived today by way of The Washington Post, where it detailed what is said to be a surveillance system capable of recording 100-percent … Continue reading
Mar 13
Yesterday The Intercept posted a massive write up detailing an NSA project called TURBINE, which is said to involve the mass infection of millions of computers globally, as well the … Continue reading
Mar 13
Recently, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ordered the National Security Agency to destroy collected phone records after five years. That order did not sit well with many, and was … Continue reading
Mar 09
There was a time when Barak Obama was defending NSA’s spying actions to the extent that he was supporting the team as patriots that were assigned “an extraordinarily difficult job.” … Continue reading
Mar 07
At South by Southwest Interactive today, Google’s Eric Schmidt spoke on the topic of NSA spying and security, touching on things like user privacy and how the Internet giant responded … Continue reading
Mar 07
Remote Access Toolkits, more commonly called RAT malware, provide hackers with access to compromised systems, and in the case of Dendroid, to one’s Android mobile. In addition to providing a … Continue reading
Mar 07
A privacy advocate group has asked regulators at the Federal Trade Commission to put the kibosh on Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp for a while. It seems they want to get … Continue reading
Mar 04
FreedomPop has unveiled its latest wares, introducing a modified Samsung Galaxy S II with a focus on security. The move comes at a time when privacy concerns are at an … Continue reading
Mar 04
Users might have felt a slight disturbance in the Twitter universe when a number of users received email notices to change their passwords. Fortunately and amusingly, this time there was … Continue reading
Mar 01
Boeing Co, best know for creating jets and fighter planes, has announced on Wednesday that it will be releasing its own secure smartphone targeting the US defense and security communities. Boeing stated that they had identified a need for agencies to have secure data communications that current devices on the market have not met.
The Boeing Black Smartphone will run on Google’s Android operating system and contain multiple features to maintain secure data storage and communications with the most significant of those being a self-destruct feature. Any attempt to break into the device case, according to Bruce Olcott of Boeing’s council, will trigger functions that will delete all data and software on the device leaving in inoperable.
According to a product card released by Boeing the device will have a 4.2 inch display and dual SIM supported bands for LTE, WCDMA and GSM. It will also communicate via Bluetooth, but interestingly no mention of WiFi. It will have on board storage as well as a microSD expansion slot and dual 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPUs.
No word at this point on carriers or the exact price and release date, but it is likely not too far off based on the amount of details released this week.
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