Category: security

In the evenings, I like to work downstairs on one of the kids computers. It’s nice to sit somewhere else and work. Keeps the mind fresh, and it also …

It’s interesting to see Charlie Schick, one of my Nokia colleagues discuss–on the corporate blog no less–a subject that has gotten a lot of attention thanks how well …

To the average person, the number of computers in my home is appalling. There are three computers downstairs alone, one for the …

As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time working from home, I always have to know where my SecurID token is. Without it and …

Every once in a while, the part of Nokia I work for announces new stuff. Today, it’s a new piece of gear: the Nokia IP1280. …

I will admit to not testing the “forced” upgrade aspect of this, but I did download and install the upgraded iSkoot for my Nokia N95 this …

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While it was, admittedly, not very nice of me to hand iSkoot a …

Looks like iSkoot made a mistake with their Nokia S60 client and will make it right. Apparently a non-production version of the S60 client made it to the public web, which sends data in the clear. Other published versions of …

Dan York asked for this. Here’s the tell-tale sign from tcpdump that the user information is in the clear. Obviously, I used a different username than my own here as obscuring my password was difficult:
10:29:56.656220 IP 10.3.2.124.43852 > 69.25.76.54.80: P …

Various people are thinking that Skype Mobile is basically an unbranded iSkoot, which does the same thing in much the same way. Generally speaking, …