Almost a third of employees regularly breach enterprise mobile management policies by using personal smartphones for work purposes, according to a report.
The survey of 1,100 mobile workers by iPass, a provider of enterprise mobility services, found 22% of employees breached their employers’ strict smartphone policies when using non-managed personal smartphones to access corporate information, putting data at a security risk.
“Un-provisioned smartphones are a significant risk to enterprises,” said Steven Wastie, senior vice-president marketing and product management at iPass. “20% of these mobile employees have experienced a relevant security issue with their smartphone containing business data lost, stolen, infected or hacked.” (more)
Facebook has released the updated application for BlackBerry handsets which finally brought Places, the location-based tagging facility to rival the popular Foursquare service.
Yet with this, the developers must not have taken into account the BlackBerry Simulation Software, which for all intents and purposes is a fully functional device for the desktop yet purely for simulating the phone and testing applications, can be used to spoof your Facebook Places and Twitter status locations.
This screenshot gallery will guide you through everything. (more)
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One cannot overstate the importance of Thursday night’s Delta 4-Heavy launch from Cape Canaveral to national security, a mission by the massive rocket that will deploy “the largest satellite in the world” to hear the whispers of evil…
The clandestine payload going up this time, known only by its launch identification number of
NROL-32, is widely believed to be an essential eavesdropping spacecraft that requires the powerful lift provided by the Delta 4-Heavy to reach its listening post…
…this new spacecraft supposedly will unfurl an extremely lightweight but
gigantically huge umbrella-like antenna to overhear enemy communications and aid U.S. intelligence.
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IL – Student journalists for Northwestern University’s Medill Innocence Project wore hidden recorders to secretly tape their interviews with witnesses as part of their investigation into an alleged wrongful conviction in the murder of a Harvey security guard, prosecutors told a Cook County judge today…
“I would put the parties on notice that a cell phone wire was used at least once by students with other witnesses,” Stack said.
In Illinois, it is illegal to record anyone without their knowledge or consent — without court authorization. (more)
Steven Soderbergh is an awful busy director, normally banging out at least a film a year. But it’s been a while since he did something blockbuster wise which may now all change.
According to The Heat Vision Blog, the Oscar winning director of
Ocean’s 11 and
Traffic is developing a big screen adaptation of the classic 60s series,
The Man From UNCLE. The show involved lots of espionage and spying, and was co-created by the man behind
James Bond,
Ian Flemming. Apparently Warner Bros. have been trying to get a film version made for about 15 years. (
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I had the experience of seeing Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney work together on a spy theme show. They are great. Hope this project brings them together once more. U.N.C.L.E. was everyone’s favorite.
