Android handsets secretly logging keystrokes, SMS messages?

Release Date 30 Nov, 2011 in CNET

Carrier IQ: The Rootkit Keylogger on Most US Smartphones Forbes - 30 Nov, 2011 Carrier IQ is a piece of software which certain US cellphone networks (Sprint for example) load onto their contract phones before they are released to consumers. The basic stated idea is quite simple: if there are problems then the software generates ...
Carrier IQ: Researcher Trevor Eckhart Outs Creepy, Hidden App Installed On ... Huffington Post - 30 Nov, 2011 A security researcher has posted a video detailing hidden software installed on smart phones that logs numerous details about users' activities. In a 17-minute video posted Monday on YouTube, Trevor Eckhart shows how the software �" known as Carrier IQ ...
	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 ...
HTC rootkit discovered phoning home with user data ZDNet (blog) - 30 Nov, 2011 By Jason D. O'Grady \| November 29, 2011, 8:30pm PST Summary: Locationgate is nothing compared to a rootkit that's been discovered pre-installed on potentially millions of Android handsets. Remember Locationgate? Well, that might be nothing compared to ...
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 ...
Researcher uncovers keylogging 'rootkit' in Android phones BetaNews - 30 Nov, 2011 Earlier this month, Android developer Trevor Eckhart looked into an always-on process in his HTC Android phones called Carrier IQ, and discovered the application was actually capturing all user actions (ostensibly for the purposes of ...
Is Carrier IQ spying on your cellphone? InfoWorld (blog) - 30 Nov, 2011 Can someone legally record almost everything you do on your phone without telling you? Yes. Meet Carrier IQ, whose software is installed on nearly 142 million handsets By Robert X. Cringely \| InfoWorld It turns out your phone may be spying on you even ...
Carrier IQ Raising Questions About What Carriers See You Do On Your Phone paidContent.org - 30 Nov, 2011 A piece of software that sits on a wide variety of Android phones is drawing increased scrutiny after a security researcher concluded that the software is sending detailed information on how the phone is used�"including individual keystrokes�"to wireless ...
	Researcher proves hidden software logs everything on mobile phones Help Net Security - 30 Nov, 2011 By now, you have already heard about the claims made by 25-year-old Trevor Eckhart that the Carrier IQ software - designed by an eponymous Mountain View company - can be considered a rootkit that logs practically all actions made by the mobile phone ...
Smartphone Spyware Kerfuffle Technologizer - 30 Nov, 2011 Android developer Trevor Eckhart says that Carrier IQ, a piece of software preinstalled on millions of smartphones to help wireless carriers monitor the quality of their service, ...
Just In Case You Wanted to See What It Looks Like When Carrier IQ is Doing Its ... Phandroid.com - 30 Nov, 2011 Trevor Eckhart, the soul who has taken it upon himself to expose CarrierIQ and the carriers who use them, has recently published a video showing what exactly is going on inside your ROM when ...
	Do you know who can secretly read your mobile messages? TechJournal South - 30 Nov, 2011 An Android developer who disclosed the way Carrier IQ software installed on millions of mobile phones collects and reports virtually everything users do, has released a video showing that the software does indeed log user keystrokes, which the company ...
Steve Jobs Was Right: Android Logs Everything Cult of Mac - 30 Nov, 2011 Back in April, Apple had a bit of a PR problem when it was discovered that iPhones were storing a cache of data on which GPS locations that handset had visited in an unencrypted file. The whole thing was just a bug, ...
	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 ...