Most Used Smart Phones and PDAs Sold on eBay Contain Sensitive Personal Data

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Most Used Smart Phones and PDAs Sold on eBay Contain Sensitive Personal Data

08-31-2006, 08:35 AM,

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Most Used Smart Phones and PDAs Sold on eBay Contain Sensitive Personal Data

Quote:Most used smartphones and PDAs for sale online are loaded with sensitive data ranging from banking records to corporate emails that can easily be retrieved by hackers and data thieves, it was alleged today.

According to a sampling by mobile security software provider Trust Digital, much of this sensitive information is retained in the Flash memory of the devices because of a widespread failure to perform the advanced hard reset required to delete data.

Trust Digital claimed that its engineers were able to recover nearly 27,000 pages of personal, corporate and device data from nine out of 10 mobile devices purchased through eBay for the project...

full article: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/216317...-sensitive

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