
This article discusses a browser “vulnerability” that results when updates for browser plug-ins are not applied. It includes a link to BrowserScan, which looks at your browser to test for your machine’s vulnerability.

Libya’s dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, has watched the events in Tunisia and Egypt and decided similar events should not happen in Libya. To prevent an uprising, he’s warning people against using Facebook.

Nokia’s chairman says it will be sometime next year before Nokia is ready to release a WinPhone7 device. Until then phones will be sold with the “old” Symbian OS.

Maybe someone in marketing should have taken a deep breath before authorizing this “promotional stunt”. It seems an “attendee” panicked, thinking the masked intruder was really taking hostages, and called the police.

Oxygen Software has released Oxygen Forensic Suite 2011. The release adds support for a number of new mobile devices and offers some new features.

Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite is now available for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) as well as Android 2.2 (Froyo) and several other mobile operating systems. Quickoffice lets you edit Microsoft Office files on your mobile devices.

Nokia spent years developing a community of developers to write for Symbian. Now all those developers have been dumped in favor of Microsoft, creating a lot of bad feelings.

This new Trojan for Android, known as HongTouTou, has been found in apps that have been re-packaged for some of the alternative app markets in China. The malware has been discovered in games and wallpaper apps.

Wirefly is giving away free stuff! In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, Wirefly’s Facebook friends are eligible for daily giveaways for the rest of February. Wirefly is hosting a sweepstakes where one fan per day will win a Bluetooth headset and one lucky grand prize winner will be awarded with a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab for Verizon Wireless.

Android is a Google product. But Google hasn’t built in the kind of security enterprises like to see. Samsung and Motorola have decided to build security systems for the Android devices they make in hopes of gaining greater enterprise adoption.