For your convenience and to learn more on how to protect yourself you can also check out this video:

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Here is the entire text of the message (added to properly index this article with the search engines):

Attn: Financial Department

By this message we would like to inform you about the recent alterations in the FDIC insurance coverage for transaction accounts.

During the period from December 31, 2010 to December 31, 2012 all the money in a “noninterest-bearing transaction account” are insured in full by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Please note, that this measure is temporary and separate from the FDIC’s common deposit insurance regulations.

The term “noninterest-bearing transaction account” includes a traditional checking account or demand deposit account on which no interest is paid by the insured depository institution.

For detailed information about temporary FDIC insurance coverage of transaction accounts, please view the official site link.

Yours sincerely,
Tad Melendez.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

It’s light, powerful and durable, I’d like to introduce you to my next laptop the Lenovo Thinkpad X1.

Typical Sendto Menu

When you right click a file or folder on your Windows 7 computer there are several menus available, one of them is the “sendto” menu. This allows you to easily send that file or folder to that program or folder. One important option that is missing in this menu is the notepad program. In this video I demonstrate how to add new items to the sendto menu or specifically the notepad program in the example. You can use it for almost anything a program, network drive even an FTP server.

Either one of those articles by themselves would have huge implications in the security of mobile devices, but the startling thing is that there are others popping up in the last 24 hours as well, and that is what compelled me to write this article for the Managed Solutions blog.

HongTouTou Android Trojan

A Chinese localized (targeting Chinese language users) Trojan emerged for the Android platform this week. The Trojan rode onto unsuspecting users via Android App marketplaces and forums.

$2,000 worth of equipment can extract Crypto Keys from Mobile Device Signals

Threatpost did an amazing job of describing a problem with how Cryptography is implemented on mobile devices. The problem results in the ability to actually capture and mimic the cryptographic key that could be for say your mobile phones payment system. This is particularly important because a lot of people see mobile as having a bright future in the payment arena.

iPhone Hacked and Passwords Stolen in Six Minutes

Fraunhofer has a video and press release demonstrating the ability to hack an iPhone and recover passwords in just 6 minutes. You don’t have to be an information security professional to realize that this is not good news for iPhone or iPad users that store anything of sensitive nature on their devices. Here is the video if you’re interested:

Thanks for the Wakeup calls today and kudos to Threatpost, Ben Jun, Cryptography Research and Fraunhofer.

Here is a screenshot example of the output on one of our test machines:

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