A real security threat is looming with wireless PDAs, WiFi devices and smartphones. These are the electronic marvels that are pushing the goal of wireless telecommunications to new limits. Industry watchers report that people are dropping their older PDAs like hot potatoes and snapping up the latest generation of wireless devices like crazy. The new PDAs and smartphones can receive e-mail and text messages just like desktop and laptop computers. That makes their users just as vulnerable to social engineering to obtain passwords and access stored data as their computer-using cohorts.
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Wireless PDAs and Smartphones: A Hacker’s Heaven
Posted by: Jack M. Germain May 7, 2004 05:30 AMA real security threat is looming with wireless PDAs, WiFi devices and smartphones. These are the electronic marvels that are pushing the goal of wireless telecommunications to new limits. Industry watchers report that people are dropping their older PDAs like hot potatoes and snapping up the latest generation of wireless devices like crazy. The new PDAs and smartphones can receive e-mail and text messages just like desktop and laptop computers. That makes their users just as vulnerable to social engineering to obtain passwords and access stored data as their computer-using cohorts.