Category Archive

Medialets created the world’s first shakable advertisement for Dockers, together with agencies OMD and Razorfish. Users shake their iPhone to make the Dockers guy dance. This ad utilizes the iPhone’s accelerometer as well as audio capabilities and appears in targeted, free iPhone applications.

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090512/7278/?mod=ATD_rss

The video talks about a couple of people who’s lives are ruled by harrasing calls and threats. They claim that their phones are tapped with special software.

Rick Mislan talks about the software and how easy it is to be placed on mobile phones.

Software such as:

• http://www.mobile-spy.com/
• http://www.world-tracker.com/
• http://www.flexispy.com/
• http://www.e-stealth.com/
• http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/spyphone/
• http://www.thespyphone.com/allinone.html

Link to Video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCyKcoDaofg

Growth projection for the mobile sector does not look good

Read More Here:

http://www.iphonestalk.com/new-survey-results-bring-good-and-bad-news-for-the-mobile-sector/

We acquired the domain names AndroidForensics.com and AndroidHack.com . Both domain names should take you to MySecured.com for now. We might dedicate the Android Forensics domain in the future to a website catering specifically to the Forensics of Android-Based Cellular Phones. The Android Hack domain name will be probably dedicated to the Hacks and Mods for the Android Based mobile phones and other devices such as netbooks and laptops.

Try the domain names now:
http://www.androidforensics.com
http://www.androidhack.com

A new site dedicated to the Palm Pre Mobile Phone and its WebOS operating system and Application Catalog. Visit it at:
http://www.PreMobilePhone.com

Modding Education for iPhone users AKA ModEdiPhone.com is a new website for all iPhone users who would like to jailbreak their iPhones or SIM unlock them whether they are using a first generation iPhone or the 3G iPhone. It provides guides and step-by-step videos and advice on how to do each hack or mod without any complications. It includes software, firmware, and hardware mods and hacks. It also contains the last five posts from the most popular iPhone blogs and news sites. It is a must visit and subscribe-to website so make sure you add it to your favourites

Here is the link:
http://www.modediphone.com/

A man in the United States used his mobile phone and the social networking service Twitter to inform the world even as he was trying to escape a burning 737. Read or hear more from the ABC:

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2008/s2453641.htm

I have previously heard of a case where a man used the twitter service to let people know he was arrested by Egyption authorities:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/index.html

Both stories might be looked at as extreme uses of the twitter service or other micro-blogging and social services. As mobile phones become more location-aware, social networking services such as twitter are tapping into this capability of mobile phones making them even more usable in distress situations or even to report crime. Coupled with cameras, these services in addition to location-aware devices can become effective crime fighting tools.

For more information on the harmless totally-reversable hack, go to:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/10/video-android-rocking-on-the-htc-touch/

Get the hack and instructions directly from xda developers here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=382265

If you were waiting for the Arabic to be ready for the 2.2 version of the iPhone then your wait is over it is now ready from iPhone Islam

Just go here for the guide to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 and then read more information about the new upgrade here.

PLEASE NOTE: If you use a SIM card proxy (a small SIM-shaped electoronic circuit that goes behind your SIM card) then NEVER upgrade your phone to 2.2! You will not be able to use your phone if you upgrade.

You can customize the color of your T-Mobile G1, the Google Android based phone at Colorware Custom. This is the design I did with custom Metallic Paints for all colors except for the yellow which is a solid color called “Caution”:
http://www.colorwarepc.com/p-170-tmobile-g1.aspx?2081=candy_apple&2082=alpine&2083=caution&2084=midnight

BTW, the phones are unlocked which means that they can be used with any carrier and not only T-Mobile.

Visit the company’s Official website.

Review here.

http://ocarina.smule.com/

Here is a sample video of Noise Alert:

For more videos visit the website:
http://www.androidapps.com/

For Apple iPhone App reviews, visit AppVee’s iPhone website at:
http://www.appvee.com/

A good start is Google’s own documentation page:
http://code.google.com/android/documentation.html

Books are another good source for step-by-step development. One Andoid book that I read is:

ANDROID A PROGRAMMERS GUIDE (Paperback)

It guides you through installing Eclipse, Android SDK and all the different steps that lead you into developing a “Friend Finder” application.

Other books of interest that i found on Amazon include:

http://www.Securify.Me

We have secured the domain name Securify.Me and we are in the process of forwarding it to MySecured.com. MySecured.com has been getting positive feedback from visitors and the financial gain from Google Ads is great. So, we are investing the money form the advertisements into buying cool domain names! Our overhead for the website is very low, so getting traffic through clever web domains has served us well so far

If the domain name sounds familiar, it is because of two parts of the domain:

- Securify: Packet Storm Security’s domain name used to be http://packetstorm.securify.com . Takes you back ages ago doesn’t it!
In fact, this is how it used to look like from 1999-2001:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://packetstorm.securify.com

Thanks to the Way Back Machine

- Me: It is the new Top Level domain name. It is also a previous version of Windows: Windows Me. More recently, Apple Computers used it for the replacement of the .MAC Cloud Computing service. It is now known as MobileMe or Mobile Me.

Keep visiting the websites and keep those suggestions coming Visit our sponsors while you are at it… it is what keeps us going after all….

contribute (at) My Secured DOt Com!

BTW: If you are interested in ANY of our domains, let us know… We might just sell it to you for the right price

Call it “on-demand computing”, “grid computing” or “software as a service”, cloud computing is the wave of the future whether people like it or not. When it comes to smartphones both iPhone and the Android platform are betting their success on cloud computing. Apple’s MobileMe and Google through its Google Apps on G1 did not get a great start but they are improving their acts with fixes and updates. Microsoft announced lately that they are getting into the cloud computing arena with cloud based servers that target both smartphones and sub-laptop devices called “netbooks”. There are too many news articles to list here to support this post and new articles on the subject seem to pop up every singe hour of the day. So, I am going to leave all the searching for cloud computing articles to you! Here is a google search for smartphone and “cloud computing” to get you started:

- Google Web Search

- Google News Search

- Google Blog Search

Get more information about this application and much more on Android’s Developer blog.

Also, visit Google Code Pages for Android.

Google Marketplace is where developers can easily publish and distribute their applications directly to users of Android-compatible phones including the T-Mobile G1.

The first ever Android was released in the USA in November but as in the previous post here on Mysecured.com, there were no people linening up outside of shops there!… The T-Mobile G1 was released in the UK yesterday (October 30th), with about the same results as the US launch… No one seems to be interested in it so far.

The week the same still holds even after reports show that the phone has been unlocked as shown in the video below:

Is this about to change here in Australia? Well, I’ve asked around and it seems like people were holding back on buying the US version of the G1 because they though it was using different 3G bands than the ones Australian telecoms use. But they thought that UK version will use the same frequencies as the Ausie carriers but so far there are no UK version T-Mobile G1s on sale on eBay UK.

Buyers here in Australia might be more interested in buying the UK version of the G1 but for now they have no choice but to wait for some of them to be either available on eBay. There is another choice however which is to buy an proprietary Android phone from an Australian technology company Kogan Technologies which will start selling their in house Chinese manufactured Android based phones that will go on sale on December 15 for $199 AUD.

For more details on that story go to:
The Age.

In other reports, people just don’t see that the G1 is either open source nor ground breaking. Wired Magazine notes that the phone has restricted use of VOIP technology as in this article:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/g1-android-phon.html

MyPhone2008.com

An interesting news article about the work of BT (formerly British Telecom), Glamorgan University, Australia’s Edith Cowan University and Sim Lifecycle Services where researchers recovered data from handsets from mobile phone recycling companies:

Mobile phones can never be totally wiped clean of data

To get more information on the research at Edith Cowan University and its upcoming conferences please visit SECAU Security Research Centre’s website:

http://www.secau.org/

Here are some published refereed journal and conference papers to give you an idea of what to expect for the Edith Cowan University conferences in December:

- Valli, C. and A. Jones (2008). A study of 2nd Hand Blackberry for sale - World class security foiled by humans. Proceedings of the 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing - SAM 2008 - The 2008 International Conference on Security & Management., Las Vegas, USA.

- Al-Zarouni, M. (2007, 3rd December, 2007). Introduction to Mobile Phone Flasher Devices and Considerations for their Use in Mobile Phone Forensics. Paper presented at the The 5th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus, Western Australia.

- Yap, L. F., & Jones, A. (2007, 3rd December, 2007). Profiling Through a Digital Mobile Device. Paper presented at the The 5th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, Edith Cowan University, Mount Lawley Campus, Western Australia.

- Yap, L. F., & Jones, A. (2007). Deleted Mobile Device’s Evidence Recovery:. Paper presented at the Media and Information-War Conference 2007, Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.

You can register to attend Edith Cowan University’s conferences here:

http://conferences.scis.ecu.edu.au/

Hope to see you there

Here is a link to the T-Mobile G1 website where you can play around with a basic emulator without having to download the SDK. You can also get a basic guide on features here:
http://tmobile.modeaondemand.com/htc/g1/

A more functional emulator can be downloaded with the Android SDK here:
http://code.google.com/android/reference/emulator.html

Finally here is a good video Introduction on Android OS for Developers. A must see if you have anything to do with the Android Platform(WARNING: 52 MINUTES LONG!):

More demo videos on user interface and applications can be found on the Android developer site:
http://code.google.com/android/index.html

Here is one of them to get you started:

Even though the iPhone doesn’t officially support Arabic yet, Google Translator includes it in 24 languages it supports for the web based software. You can use it by pointing the iPhone browser to: http://translate.google.com.

Good news for iPhone forensics:

Paraben’s Device Seizure can get a variety of data depending on the operating system version as well as whether or not the phone has been unlocked (often called Jailbreaking). The following is a general guide to what data can be acquired from the different versions, however, our testing shows that different Jailbreaking methods unlock different portions of the phone (for instance, one method allowed Device Seizure to acquire most media files but did not allow access to phone records, contacts, or images uploaded to the phone):

Firmware 1.0, 1.0.1 and 1.0.2: Most logical data can be acquired from the phone Firmware 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, and 1.1.4: Only the /var/root/Media folder will be acquired Firmware Unlocked by a Jailbreaking Utility: Should
acquire most logical data depending on the unlocking software used. This is our first release for the Apple iPhone and we expect to see many more additions to this technology in the future. Keep your subscription
current to make sure you get all the new updates.

As quoted from Paraben. For more information please visit Paraben.