by TapCellPhoneGuy on October 30, 2009

Oct. 12–Sneaky people and technology can turn your cell phone against you. Cell phone spyware makes it easy for someone to eavesdrop on your conversations, intercept text messages and identify your location. And you may never know it’s happening, experts say. “You are so dead,” an electronically altered voice taunted Courtney Kuykendall from her cell [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on August 21, 2009

CNN) — When BlackBerry users in the United Arab Emirates received a text message from their service provider on July 8 instructing them to install an upgrade on their handsets, they had no idea the application also contained software that, according to BlackBerry’s maker, would enable third parties to peek at private information on their [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on June 6, 2009

Don’t talk: your cell phone may be eavesdropping. Thanks to recent developments in “spy phone” software, a do-it-yourself spook can now wirelessly transfer a wiretapping program to any mobile phone. The programs are inexpensive, and the transfer requires no special skill. The would-be spy needs to get his hands on your phone to press keys [...]
by TapCellPhoneGuy on May 21, 2009

Polish research and development company TechLab 2000, which specializes in secure communications, has designed what it says is a tap-proof mobile phone based on pioneering data encryption technology. The phone, called Xaos Gamma, is the first phone of its kind in the world, according to TechLab executives. It has been designed by an all-Polish team [...]