Android handsets secretly logging keystrokes, SMS messages?

Release Date 30 Nov, 2011 in CNET

	Android handsets secretly logging keystrokes, SMS messages? CNET - 30 Nov, 2011 A look at some of the actionable data Carrier IQ collects, including location information of a single device user. Your Android-based smartphone could be watching just about everything you do, ...
	Is your smartphone spying on you? Houston Chronicle (blog) - 30 Nov, 2011 If you're an Android smartphone user, you've likely seen the warnings that spyware targeting that platform is legion, a claim that may be overblown. But for millions of Android, BlackBerry and Nokia users, the real threat to their privacy may be coming ...
	Mobile tracking software logs every phone activity, threat to personal data Moneycontrol.com - 30 Nov, 2011 It's not just Facebook who has been accused of accessing private user information. Trevor Eckhart, an Android developer had recently become the talk of the techville when he shed light on a certain security software from a company called Carrier iQ ...
BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps Register - 30 Nov, 2011 An Android app developer has published what he says is conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are secretly monitoring the key presses, geographic locations, and received messages of its users. In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart ...
Researcher's Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything Wired News (blog) - 30 Nov, 2011 The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a ...
Carrier IQ Withdraws Legal Threat Against Security Researcher InformationWeek - 30 Nov, 2011 Network diagnostic software vendor issues apology to researcher who discovered its application secretly monitoring smartphone users. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek After security researcher Trevor Eckhart branded a tool from smartphone ...
Carrier IQ drops legal threat against security researcher Computerworld - ‎Nov 28, 2011‎ Computerworld - Software vendor Carrier IQ has withdrawn its threat to sue a security researcher for saying that its software helps phone companies surreptitiously track users of many popular mobile phones. Company CEO Larry Lenhart ...
	Secret app logs keystrokes and texts Techwatch - 30 Nov, 2011 An Android developer has published a YouTube video that he claims is proof that a mobile intelligence company secretly collects user.. We've had a bit of negative press about Windows Phone 7 after the launch of the new Nokia Lumia 800 this. ...
Carrier IQ Sees Your Every Keystroke and More: Researcher International Business Times - 30 Nov, 2011 By IBTimes Staff Reporter: Subscribe to IBTimes's RSS feed Carrier IQ (CIQ) is emerging as a bogeyman of the mobile devices world thanks partly to the efforts of Trevor Eckhart, a mobile developer and security researcher. Eckhart characterized CIQ as ...
Follow Up CarrierIQ Video Contradicts Company Claims Dslreports - 30 Nov, 2011 On Monday we noted that a company named CarrierIQ had apologized for threatening security researcher Trevor Eckhart, who had divulged the company was selling a stealth rootkit to carriers that was difficult to detect, even more difficult to remove, ...
	A background app on your droid smartphone sniffs all your info GSMArena.com - 30 Nov, 2011 Well, this is tough. After the Applegate scandal that followed after we found out that Apple was tracking the location of its users with their iPhones, now Google's Android, and HTC in particular, could be finding themselves in much the same situation. ...
	Developer claims phone software spies on millions PC Pro - 30 Nov, 2011 A mobile phone analytics tool has been accused of snooping on millions of consumers, despite the manufacturer denying it logged user actions. Android app developer Trevor Eckhart has posted a video in which he claims to prove ...
	Carrier IQ in hot water over keystroke monitoring THINQ.co.uk - 30 Nov, 2011 The storm over smartphone monitoring specialist Carrier IQ's hidden software continues, as the security researcher it threatened to sue proves that the so-called 'rootkit' installed on smartphone handsets monitors every single keystroke made on the ...
	Security Researcher Shows Off Hidden Smartphone App Which Logs Your Data (Video) Geeky gadgets - 30 Nov, 2011 Trevor Eckhart is a security researcher who has appeared a lot in the news over the last week, as he discovered hidden software form mobile phone monitoring company Carrier iQ on a number of smartphones. The company Carrier IQ had been virtually ...
CarrierIQ logs your phone's activity IntoMobile - 30 Nov, 2011 Android developer Trevor Eckhart uncovered software that may be secretly installed on some Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones. The software, Carrier IQ, tracks almost everything the user does on his or her handset and sends it back to Carrier IQ ...
Carrier IQ Researcher Posts Video Showing Software Spying On Encrypted ... Gadgetsteria - 30 Nov, 2011 The public image surrounding Carrier IQ, the company infamously called out by security research and XDA dev, Trevor Eckhart, just got kicked in the teeth while it was picking itself up off the ground. If you recall, Eckhart accused Carrier IQ's ...
Carrier IQ watchdog says software is a rootkit, posts video evidence The Verge - 30 Nov, 2011 Carrier IQ's data collection software is looking shadier than ever. Trevor Eckhart, the security researcher who accused the company's software of monitoring vast swathes of user personal data ...
How Deep Does The Rabbit Hole Go? An In-Depth Look At Carrier IQ, The Data It ... Android Police - 30 Nov, 2011 Lately, we've talked a lot about Carrier IQ, the "service" that hides itself in the background of an unknown number of Android devices, harvesting information and sending it back to carriers. While it's still not known how deep the rabbit hole actually ...
	Carrier IQ Video Shows Alarming Capabilities Of Mobile Tracking Software TechCrunch - 30 Nov, 2011 Devin Coldewey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer. He has written for the TechCrunch network since 2007. Some posts he'd like you to read: The Dangers of Externalizing Knowledge \| Generation i \| Surveillant Society \| Choose Two \| Frame Wars ...
Security researcher responds to CarrierIQ with video proof Geek.com - ‎Nov 29, 2011‎ It's been almost a month since security researcher Trevor Eckhart approached me with a very complicated question. He had stumbled across what seemed like evidence that data was being recorded from his phone and sent to a company that was neither his ...
CarrierIQ Backs Off Cease and Desist Dslreports - ‎Nov 28, 2011‎ Earlier this month a security researcher named Trevor Eckhart profiled CarrierIQ, which has been helping wireless carriers bury a rootkit on wireless phones allowing them to track device performance and other metrics. The rootkit is difficult to detect ...
	Carrier IQ Pulls Cease And Desist Order And Apologizes To Researcher Social Barrel - ‎Nov 28, 2011‎ Carrier IQ has pulled out its cease and desist order letter to security researcher and Android developer Trevor Eckhart after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) stepped in. Eckhart's comprehensive analysis of Carrier IQ's method to collect data, ...
Carrier IQ Withdraws Cease & Desist Order against Developer Phandroid.com - ‎Nov 27, 2011‎ The cease and desist order issued to Android dev Trevor Eckhart has been withdrawn by Carrier IQ less than a week after news first broke of potential legal action. Eckhart has been digging deep into ...
Carrier IQ drops legal threat against security researcher Computerworld New Zealand - ‎Nov 28, 2011‎ Software vendor Carrier IQ has withdrawn its threat to sue a security researcher for saying that its software helps phone companies surreptitiously track users of many popular mobile phones. By Jaikumar Vijayan \| Framingham \| Tuesday, 29 November, ...