Smartphones: Pocketable Endpoints or Network Backdoor?

rmowery

4-2-2008 3:49 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2a9bfed8-9044-44c9-91f3-3582cc129ee3/CBF84176-1341-49C0-9F22-F0CD6D5B59C7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.blackberrytoday.com/articles/2008/4/2008-4-1-Smartphones-Pocketable-Endpoints.html" href="http://www.blackberrytoday.com/articles/2008/4/2008-4-1-Smartphones-Pocketable-Endpoints.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.blackberrytoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blackberrytoday.com/articles/2008/4/2008-4-1-Smartphones-Pocketable-Endpoints.html"><FONT size="-1" face="arial">Smartphones: Pocketable Endpoints or Network Backdoor? </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blackberrytoday.com/articles/2008/4/2008-4-1-Smartphones-Pocketable-Endpoints.html"><FONT size="-1" face="arial">By Lyne Bourque<BR />April 1, 2008</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blackberrytoday.com/articles/2008/4/2008-4-1-Smartphones-Pocketable-Endpoints.html"><FONT size="-1" face="arial">        In today's corporate environment, very few people are without some kind of cell phone. And many phones have more functions and options than the average user needs. For better or worse, they are a ubiquitous part of life, and for many, they are simply indispensable.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blackberrytoday.com/articles/2008/4/2008-4-1-Smartphones-Pocketable-Endpoints.html"><FONT size="-1" face="arial">Backdoors, in this context, describe non-obvious devices and technologies that can interface with a network and pry open an attack vector that most security mechanisms don't account for.  For example, unauthorized wireless access points can be considered backdoors.  <A href="#" class="kLink"  id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="blue"><SPAN class="kLink">Software</SPAN></FONT></A> backdoors -- and the paranoia surrounding them -- is a topic for <A target="_new" href="http://www.antionline.com/">another site</A>...</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CBF84176-1341-49C0-9F22-F0CD6D5B59C7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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