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  • Aggressive mobile worm detected

    It also spreads via MMS or by an infected memory card inserted into a device.Commwarrior.Q is not spreading widely. A security vendor has detected a new variant of an aggressive Russian mobile worm that uses some alarming new tricks.Like its…
  • Four new Trojans on the loose

    The computer worm spreads via e-mail and purports to offer pornography.The phone worms - Bootton.E, Pbstealer.D and Sendtool.A - have a low infection rate at the moment. The mobile phone worms are disguised as legitimate applications and spread via…
  • First mobile messaging worm makes entrance

    First mobile messaging worm makes entrance Paul Roberts, IDG News Service CommWarrior spreads over MMS and Bluetooth.news The first mobile phone virus that spreads using the popular Mobile Messaging Service (MMS) is circulating among Symbian Series…
  • Cabir phone virus continues global tour

    Cabir spreads on phones that run the Symbian operating system and are equipped with Bluetooth wireless connections, including Series 60 phones from a number of manufacturers, such as Siemens, Nokia and others.
  • Cabir worm spreads further

    Cabir worm spreads further John Blau, IDG news service It's the US's turn now news Infected phones scan for vulnerable handsets using the short-range Bluetooth wireless connection, then send a file containing the worm to those phones.To be infected…
  • New mobile phone virus spreads two ways

    New mobile phone virus spreads two ways John Blau, IDG news service Bluetooth and attached files affected news A Brazilian virus writer has unleashed a new mobile phone virus, called Lasco.A, that is capable of spreading both through the…

Latest Features

  • Hands on with the Apple iPad

    You can quickly peek at the contents of any of those stacks by using the pinch gesture, which spreads out the photos in the stack to let you glance at thumbnails of all of them. At the moment, using the iPads interface via the keyboard felt…
  • How dangerous malware is becoming invisible

    Attempting to open the file on a 3rd Edition phone will probably cause an error message rather than an installation prompt.HatiHati.A is another troublemaker, a worm-like application that spreads via MMC cards.
  • Ultra Wideband vendors could go it alone

    By contrast, UWB doesn't use a carrier wave: instead it uses short pulses of energy and spreads them over a range of frequencies using well-known modulation techniques such as orthogonal frequency division modulation (OFDM) or direct sequencing.
  • Not all bright for Bluetooth

    The majority of those Bluetooth-enabled products - 65 percent - are being sold in Europe, with 25 percent shipping to Asia and 10 percent to the Americas, he said.Bluetooth is getting quite good adoption currently in cell phones and even in…
 

How-Tos

  • How to avoid phone viruses

    Cardtrap spreads to phone memory cards - which can be inserted in computers to sync up a music download, picture or ringtone - where it can infect again, Fogie says. Doomboot enters via Bluetooth's discovery mode, the Web and e-mail.
 
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