Your SmartPhone Stores Every Keystroke You Ever Typed

[JMH]

There's an application that can record every keystroke you've ever typed on your smartphone, even an iPhone. It's not a sinister Trojan, or an evil keylogger. It's simply the database that the phone draws on to supply AutoComplete results. You can't dig in and see the keystrokes yourself, but at the RSA Conference security vendor StrikeForce Technologies demonstrated that external software can read back that database and thus read out every text or email you've sent and, more important, every password you've typed.

StrikeForce makes the GuardedID anti-keylogger tool for PCs. At the conference they're announcing MobileTrust, a similar solution for all Apple and Android mobile devices. As with GuardedID, MobileTrust encrypts communication between the keyboard and your sensitive applications. No keystrokes go into the AutoComplete database, so your secrets are safe.

RSA: Your SmartPhone Stores Every Keystroke You Ever Typed

 

[AceInfinity]

Yikes, if people would understand that cellphones will very soon be the new biggest target for hackers... This is not good. Did we not learn about protecting against Keyloggers by now? A smartphone does half the work if this is the way they work. Next part is just the retrieval of that data over a cellular network. People do everything on their phones though. It's not like this is just something to forget and let go.

- Banking
- Facebook
- Email
- etc...

>> Identity theft, and many other fraudulent cybercriminal actions can result in this kind of potential security risk. Facebook? Why is that a threat? - People put lots of personal data on that site lol. In many cases, the password you use for facebook, may also be the same for your email. And if someone gets your email, that's just another pandoras box of chaos. You can virtually get anything you want if you have someone's email because of something called "Password reset".

Glad I only use my old cellphone for texting and the occasional calls.