Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

Affected Applications from “A Survey Of Mobile Device Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Defenses”

The author surveyed over 230 applications (the full list of applications ,can be found in A Survey Of Mobile Device Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Defenses), including applications in the “Top” categories on the iTunes store to determine what type of information could be extracted from auditing packet streams. The results were quite surprising. To perform [...]

A Survey Of Mobile Device Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Defenses

By David Stites and Anitha Tadimalla {dstites, atadimalla}@uccs.edu University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Abstract— Mobile devices, such as smartphones and PDAs have become increasingly popular with consumers and often provide essential functionality in our everyday life. Usually these mobile devices contain lots of sensitive information, such as addresses, contacts, ingoing/outgoing call logs, SMS messages, [...]

Restoring “Bounce” Functionality in Mail.app and Lion

The “Bounce” functionality was one of my most used features of Mail, and it was particiarly handy in removing yourself from non-spam, non-automated mailing lists (such as recruiters and people you no longer want to hear from).  This feature is missing in Lion and Mail 5!  In addition to telling Apple you want it back, [...]

Rumors of a “Home Button”-less iPad2 and iPhone5

Normally, I think that simpler is better. I enjoy simple things and not just necessarily things like the smell of cut grass, an ice cold beer at a friends BBQ, the first snowfall of winter or reading a book. After all, Occam was on to something (the law of succinctness is a principle which generally [...]

A Better App Rating System

As developers, we try our best to create the best products we can.  We really do.  Yes, I know that some features get pushed to the back burner when releases are behind schedule or some bugs get kludged and we hedge our bets on whether the user will hit them or not.  However, for the [...]