Cell Phone Safety and your I-T Department

When it comes to IT security, our computer is not the only thing at risk. Almost everyone today has a cell phone and a mobile phone can be hacked.

One way to infect someone’s phone with a malicious program called Flexispy. Here’s how it works. Say Dave, our company president, wants to pursue something on one of its officers, Greg, and know what to do. Dave just wanted to go to Greg at some point and say: “Greg, do you mind if I borrow your phone does not mine and I want to check with my family?”. And Greg said, “Of course, no problem. ”

So Dave took his phone. Now, Dave has already been Flexispy, and they have instructions to infect the cell phone Greg with a virus just by visiting a few Web site URL. This is the name of Dave. Looks like he dials the number, and then only to make them look good, “he said into the phone..? “Yes, hello I just checked that everything is fine Oh yeah, Greg borrowed me his phone number, it is a good guy. Okay. I’ll be late. Bye.” Then Greg Dave hands the phone back.

Meanwhile, Greg thinks that just dandy. He borrowed his phone to his boss and he is a good guy. But now call any phone receives or places Greg, Dave, a statement to the other part is what is their phone number and how long they had to pick up the phone. All this information available to Dave for only 0.95.

Now, when to splurge and spend 9.95 Dave decided that he can remotely activate the microphone on the phone now to listen to Greg and Greg’s activities at any time Greg’s phone is turned on. So if Greg is at home tonight with his family, Dave was able to listen to their conversation at the table. When Greg is in a closed session, Dave could be heard in camera. Basically, Dave could hear everything going on in Greg’s life as long as her phone is on.

The CIA knows what is a serious danger of this technology. In fact, the CIA is very concerned about this spy technology could have on the phones of some of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or other high-ranking government officials. If that happened, it would really compromise the security of the United States of America.

Therefore, never hand your phone to anyone. If someone asks to borrow my phone, I say: “Sure. But I will choose your number and I go to two inches of your face are all the time you have this conversation. “

At that time, the person who asked to borrow my phone normally reply: “Never mind.”

If you have recently given to someone to use your mobile phone and wonder if some sort of spy device on your phone to your computer professional to examine the phone. Or, if your phone is always updated anyway, now might be a good time to put your phone into a new profession. You can still use the same phone number, because the virus infects the cell phone itself and not the phone number.

If you look at your phone again and see the screen indicates the phone is “connected” or “in use” if you do not answer a call or a call, it may mean that you have some kind spyware phone to have. Unfortunately, most people do not see on their phone when not in use. Then just leave it in your belt clip, handbag, in a drawer or on a table.

It would also be telltale signs of someone eavesdropping on your calls on your phone bill. But not everyone checks the account and see some people do not even know their bills an accountant to use their financial knowledge.

If you have the right tools, you can tell if something has been downloaded to your phone. A company called Trust Digital is a management tool very nice touch to check, manage and protect all your cell phones and PDAs in the enterprise.

A common theme you’ll find in this book to protect your network, the concept of central management. ” What’s this? Well, ask a computer professional, and they will tell you that one of the worst things in our profession if we change something on all company computers. It does not matter if you have five computers, fifty, five hundred or more computers, too much work for each computer, phone or PDA is visiting individual. We want to be able to manage things centrally.

Today’s organizations have PDAs, cell phones, Blackberry, etc. All these devices also keep sensitive data. So what happens if one of your employees on a business trip and accidentally left her cell phone or PDA in a taxi? When inserted into a central management system that would put workers’ representatives, the IT department and tell them what happened. Then someone in IT can make a few keystrokes on the keyboard and remove all cell phone or PDA.

Now everything is ragged on the phone. And when I say shredded, ie within the phone and writing zeros in the data card actually delete the data. Furthermore, the forensics data can not recover the data. It just disappeared.

In case anyone traveling in another taxi found the phone, and somehow there for you, your IT department to make a few more keys on the keyboard and restore all data. What use is a process in four hours to recharge it.

So do not neglect your mobile phone and PDA, when it comes to data security. There are tools there to help you, easy to use.

Action point: Treat treat your phone as your toothbrush. Let no one use.