http://clipmarks.com/tags/smartphoone/http://rss.clipmarks.com/tags/smartphoone/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/CBF84176-1341-49C0-9F22-F0CD6D5B59C7/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/rmowery/">rmowery</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.blackberrytoday.com/articles/2008/4/2008-4-1-Smartphones-Pocketable-Endpoints.html" title="http://www.blackberrytoday.com/articles/2008/4/2008-4-1-Smartphones-Pocketable-Endpoints.html">www.blackberrytoday.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="-1" face="arial">Smartphones: Pocketable Endpoints or Network Backdoor? </FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="-1" face="arial">By Lyne Bourque<BR />April 1, 2008</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><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></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><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></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/smartphoone/" rel="tag">smartphoone</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/security/" rel="tag">security</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/backdoor/" rel="tag">backdoor</a></div>http://www.blackberrytoday.com/articles/2008/4/2008-4-1-Smartphones-Pocketable-Endpoints.htmlWed, 02 Apr 2008 20:49:15 GMT