InfoSphere™ Business Alerts And Intelligence: Android

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It is indeed every overburdened technophile's dreams. In an ever-expanding universe of applications, a Japanese company claims to have created the one application you'll need in order to organize and rule all of your others. And in this word where different social media, communications, informational and mobile apps are being germinated and every day and evolving every week through an increased number of techno-Legos in a growing combinatorial bag, simplicity and centralization are what we all crave.

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A social media application called Line aims to give mobile-device users different social tools from within a single app. The app, developed by NHN Japan, will include a social-gaming hub, a Groupon-style coupon service, an Instagram-style photo suite and a variety of social-sharing and networking tools.

This article certainly sounds very promising. We need tools to operate our tools, machines to operate our machine and robots to build and operate our robots. We believe that this gives us power. But it creates more devastatingly dangerous dependencies than ever before.

The notion of having a simple, consolidated, central "dashboard" (by analogy) to let you rule over your growing portfolio of apps can be a dream come true, or perhaps the beginning of a never-ending battleground for the one key which unlocks all of your computational and communications capabilities and records. This could be one powerful key.

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Master Application Dominating And Controlling Application Potentiators - MADCAPs

And as increasing layers of evolved, enhanced and recombined apps (a wild, virally-expanding multidimensional DNA-like matrix phenomenon built upon of Moore's Law, Derived Demand, Decreased Technological And Financial Barriers To Entry, expanding possibilities for combinations and dervative technologies with technological Darwinism, and behavioral psychology [visit The Taking Command Blog]) fill limitless cyberspace and endless demand, Master Application Dominating And Controlling Application Potentiators ("MADCAPs" - my Lingovation for these master keys) could become either Humankind's techno-pals or its most dangerous rulers.

The issues that make this whole dashboard of dashboards or "master key of all keys" panacea a potential slayer instead of savior:

1) It will invite healthy competition for this position of power and endless marketability, but it will draw forth a large number of black hat cyber experts;

2) Part of developing this key requires pulling apps apart and finding ways to hack into them or to commandeer them;

3) It will ultimately require of granting access (and possible control or hijacking) to all of your informational and communications tools, all of your data and your complete cyberlife. The aggregators of this megadatabase will have vast power, both obvious, and potentially nefarious, i.e., manipulative over every electronically interfaced access of your being.

Sadly, but candidly, those things which we come to depend upon the most are those that have the greatest power to destroy us.

This is going to be interesting, and is going to be affecting the entire cybercommunity, especially those who are Droidists or iPhonians in the growing mobile market sector.

Douglas E. Castle, for

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Alert: Mobile Malware Threats Increase.

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We are constantly concerned about viruses, worms, keystroke loggers, and all manner of malware on our computers. We usually take precautions by deploying anti-virus and anti-malware utilities to identify and neutralize these threats. We are accustomed to them, and so we are seldom taken by surprise. The anti-virus and anti-malware detection criteria are being dynamically updated by the hour.

With the integration of different types of media, such as tablets, mobile communications gear, Skype (VoIP), and the like into the Internet, our vulnerability to the threat of viruses and other debilitating malware extends automatically to these other media. These media are not only internet-dependent (and the internet is highly compromised in so many ways), but they represent new access routes through which malware cannot only be promulgated, but introduced.

With the increase in mobile device usage and dependence (everything from text messaging to surfing the net), it was only a matter of time before hackers, phishers, black-hat social engineers and identity thieves would focus their attentions upon these tools.

An article excerpt from ZDNet follows to provide you with further information about the nature and proliferation vectors of these threats. In the interim, I would urge extreme caution in integrating phone functions with data accessing functions, as well as heightened vigilance in securing these tools with passwords, and being very, very careful when downloading applications from any source.

The report follows:

Mobile malware: A clear and present danger

A group of Berkeley researchers take a long, hard look at mobile malware. What they found should interest you. Read more

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Due to the growing nature of this threat, and our growing societal and business dependency on these mobile devices, InfoSphere Business Alerts will be keeping you posted with every significant update -- both in terms of the problem, and in terms of some suggested defense tools and strategies .

Douglas E Castle