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Nokia X20 and G21 receiving new updates

Marin — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:08:17 +0000

Nokia Mobile is busy today, releasing new entry devices and new security patches for some of their devices. Nokia XR20 and Nokia G21 are next in line to receive new security updates. While XR20 is receiving a February patch, G21 is getting a January patch. The update for XR20 is 98.42MB large while the update […]

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Nokia to work on US Federal 5G Cybersecurity Project

Stipe — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 11:25:02 +0000

Nokia announced this week that the company was selected as a technology provider and collaborator for the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) 5G Cybersecurity Project. As it is mentioned in the press release, Nokia will work with the US government and other NCCoE partners to ensure a secure 4G to 5G transition. The goal […]

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Vulnerability found in Snapdragon processors, but a patch is already issued

Stipe — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:09:40 +0000

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC have the reputation of world’s best silicon for mobile devices, and most benchmarks actually prove that, though one can argue about everyday performance and how noticeable the difference is compared to rival chips. Anyways, security research company Check Point discovered a vulnerability in Snapdragon’s DSP that exposed Android devices using the Snapdragon […]

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Nokia 3.2, 4.2 and 9 come with Sensory’s facial recognition with 99.999% accuracy rate

Stipe — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 07:35:18 +0000

Sensory, a company operating in the field of speech and vision Technologies, announced in an official press release that the latest Nokia Devices, the Nokia 3.2, Nokia 4.2 and Nokia 9 PureView come with their TrulySecure facial recognition technology. The company claims that the system identifies users in less than a second and can differentiate individuals […]

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Bluetooth vulnerability that affects almost all smartphones patched in June Android security update

Stipe — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 06:00:37 +0000

Researches from Technion, prof. Eli Biham and graduate student Lior Neumann, discovered a serious vulnerability in Bluetooth data transfer that affects all devices with Intel, Broadcom or Qualcomm Bluetooth chips, or in other words, probably most devices on the planet. The security flaw allows a third party in the Bluetooth range to intercept a Bluetooth file transfer and […]

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Nokia had to donate to charity as part of the ransom deal for stolen Symbian encryption key

Stipe — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 18:49:02 +0000

Some time ago, before English version of NokiaMob existed, we covered an interesting, movie-like report on our Croatian site that someone stole a Symbian encryption key from Nokia in 2007. It was first reported (in 2014) that the key allowed a 3rd party to install applications without users knowledge or consent, but MTV.fi, that broke […]

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#Nokia: Withings not hacked. Incident happened, but user info safe

Stipe — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:53:42 +0000

Last few days, many reports were popping up on the web suggesting that a security breach happened at Withings, now Nokia Health, that may have exposed private user information. We contacted Nokia for an official statement and they said that they heard about reports that small number of user account credentials got from an earlier […]

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