Cops and robbers find new uses for mobile phones
Mobile phones are changing the lives of both criminals and the investigators that hunt them, mobile phone security experts said at the Infosecurity conference held in New York on Wednesday. As a result, corporate IT departments should be aware of their criminal capabilities, and take steps to gain more control of the mobile devices used by their workers, they said.
With constantly improving storage and processing power, a mobile phone is probably a much more powerful device than many realize, said James Steele, a computer forensics investigator with T-Mobile USA Inc.
"The cell phone will be the new hacker workstation," Steele said during a panel discussion at the conference. "Except for the limitations of the browser, there's nothing I can't do over the wireless network, that I can't do over a regular workstation."
