Archive for the ‘Android’ Category

BREAKING NEWS! Apparently Unity Technologies just lost their heads after a wild night of drugs, sex and wild partying and are now offering their Unity iOS and Android Basic licenses for FREE!! You read that right folks! That’s a total value of  $800 dollars software now completely free and yours until April the 8th! SO GO GRAB IT NOW BEFORE THEY REALIZE THEIR FOOLISH MISTAKE!!

Grab your free copy of Unity iOS and Android Basic here!

Don’t forget, you can already download Unity for free!  And if you already have Unity Pro with either Unity iOS Pro or Android Pro license, you can still get the Basic License of the platform you don’t have for free. Just hit the “Upgrade” button at the top!

If you want to remove the Carrier IQ rootkit from your smartphone, Android, or iPhone here are some tips.

For the iPhone here are the instructions to remove the spyware: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/how-to-disable-the-carrier-iq-rootkit-on-your-iphone/16724

If you are on an Android Phone and would like to remove it check here: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/12/how-to-remove-the-carrier-iq-rootkit/

Android is quite a pain. iPhone is pretty simple. If you’ve got a Blackberry that has the Carrier IQ rootkit on it you’ll have to wait. Blackberry said that carriers may have installed the rootkit on Blackberry but as of today there is no official word from RIM on how to remove the spyware.

There is also more information on this in a couple of other posts I’ve made as well as the links above. The topic is covered in depth.

http://www.wildpipe.com/news/is-your-smartphone-spying-on-you/

If you haven’t heard your phone possibly has a spyware rootkit on it. Carrier IQ is a company that claims to be collecting data about dropped calls however a developer found that it was in fact logging all your keystrokes and your GPS location… possibly more.

I got a little more information today and thought I’d share. From what I understand it is on over 150 million phones right now. It is on several major Android brand phones and also iPhones. The thing can collect data from your SMS texts and send it back to this company. I don’t like that much. I posted another article about it in more depth here: http://www.wildpipe.com/news/is-your-smartphone-spying-on-you/

Removal instructions: http://www.wildpipe.com/iphone/removing-carrier-iq-rootkit-on-iphone-and-android-phones/

Millions of us have Android phones and we’d like to set our privacy settings. I recently found this video of what looks surprisingly like a root kitted spying app built right into the systems. The video shows that even on a disabled phone with no service GPS location is still being logged. The narrator explains that plain text is being sent out when it should be encrypted. And that pretty much all your location data is getting passed on… not only that but every keystroke. It would be possible for someone with the output of this data to track your moments and activities better than freakin seal team six!
Read the rest of this entry »