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12/4/2006

Cell Phones May Reveal Business Secrets
by Timothy Lee, Associate Extension Specialist, UALR Lead Center

Trust Digital, a provider of mobile security software, purchased 10 second-hand digital devices (cell phones and personal digital assistants) on eBay. Trust Digital engineers recovered nearly 27,000 pages of personal, corporate, and device data from nine of 10 mobile devices.

The salvaged data included personal banking and tax information, corporate sales activity notes, corporate client records, product roadmaps, contact address books, phone and Web logs, calendar records, personal and business correspondence, computer passwords, user medication information, and other private, competitive or potentially damaging material. The information was retained in the flash memory of the devices because of users’ failure to perform the advanced hard reset required to delete the data.

Trust Digital's advice for consumers and businesses:

- Enable the password function on yurr devices.
- Ask your cellular carrier for information about data security.
- “Hard wipe” your devices before selling them.

For more information:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/30/D8JR17P80.html
http://www.trustdigital.com/news/press/2006_0824.asp

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