Cell Phone Security And Your I T Department
Mike Foster, The Foster Institute asked: When it comes to IT security, our computers aren’t the only thing vulnerable. Almost everyone these days has a cell phone, and a cell phone can be hacked too.One way to infect someone’s cell phone is with a malicious program called FlexiSPY. Here’s how it works. Let’s say that Dave, our company president, wants to follow up a little bit on one of his senior managers, Greg, and find out what he’s up to. Dave would simple go to Greg sometime and say, “Greg, do you mind if I borrow your mobile phone? Mine’s not working and I want to check in with my family.” And Greg says, “Sure, no problem.”So Dave takes his phone. Now Dave has already been to FlexiSPY, and they’ve already given him the instructions of how to infect Greg’s phone with a little virus by simply visiting a web site URL. So Dave does that. He acts like he’s dialing the number, and then just to make it look good, he says into the phone, “Yeah, hi. I was just checking in. Is everything okay? Oh yeah, Greg loaned me his phone. He’s a great guy. Okay. I’ll talk [...]
