14 DAY TRIAL // Remember that piece of news about the NSA (the US National Security Agency) gathering huge amounts of data? Well, they face a serious threat because of it, but they can afford it, after all, they're the NSA! The danger is the fact that when sitting upon a huge pile of information that you have gathered for security, the whole stack of data could be used against you, if a database would get hacked. Generally, a lot of precautions need to be taken when working with a lot of sensitive data.
This is not the first time I hear about some security measures creating vulnerabilities. However, this is the first time when it concerns a smartphone. F-secure stated that Retina-X Studios' Mobile Spy is not built for security, as seen on ZDNet.
Now, what is this Mobile Spy? Well, it's an application that monitors Windows Mobile smartphone traffic. It can have many uses - monitoring is a great tool for security, but what if everyone could access the data gathered by this application? Well, then, instead of a security software, you actually end up having a liability.
To gain access to the recorded log, you need to log into an account, but according to F-Secure, anyone could access such an account, while exploiting a vulnerability, as ZDNet informs us.
However, the software vendors rejected F-Secure's accusations and stated that their application runs perfectly. So, security experts say one thing and software vendors another - and they can't both be right. But smartphones aren't exactly old, there is much more to learn about them and certainly, when talking about mobile software, things are only at the beginning. And this goes for any mobile software, security applications, as well as other programs. Computers are really old and we still face flawed software, so if mobile programs are buggy, it's understandable in my opinion!