mobile phone virus
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.12.08
Round-Up Code 18: refers to a problem that was the fault of the person using the computer in the first place and almost certainly not 'a virus or something'. The explanation behind this one is that if you type 'cool' into a... [12 Dec 2008]
Symantec CEO on weathering the credit storm
News V is for Virus variants Speaking at the Symantec Vision + ManageFusion EMEA 08 conference, Thompson said that although mobile antivirus is a growing market, the low risk posed by phone... [10 Oct 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News V is for Virus variants Some users have also complained about the necessity of carrying the device with them, leading one user to hack PINsentry to send new access codes to his mobile... [18 Jul 2008]
Prison tech: Mobiles blocked and bodies scanned
News V is for Virus variants Body scanning chairs and mobile phone blocking technology will be rolled out to UK prisons to stamp out drug abuse in jails. Mobile... [08 Jul 2008]
Mobile industry advise on handset security
News As well as looking at how to counter the threat from hackers seeking to exploit stolen, blocked mobiles by reprogramming their ID number, the documents detail enhancements to existing hardware security to ramp up virus... [22 May 2008]
Carphone Warehouse in data protection breach
News V is for Virus variants Mobile phone, broadband, landline and other customers with both companies found themselves unable to take out loans or mortgages because of incorrect credit... [16 Jan 2008]
Cyber criminals building more but smaller botnets
News Computers infected with a virus unknowingly become 'zombies' in a botnet - which is a network used to send out spam and to mount further attacks on other machines. V is for Virus variants Sean Sullivan,... [28 Sep 2007]
Photos: Inside the malware hunters' den
Photo F-Secure's mobile bunker (pictured) is where the response team can observe and analyse viruses as they pass from mobile device to device - but within the safety of the sealed room so the... [28 Sep 2007]
Mobile malware threat 'not high'
News In June 2004, F-Secure released details of a piece of mobile phone malware that used Bluetooth to try to spread to other Symbian series 60-based mobiles - which is believed to be the first case of a... [27 Sep 2007]
iPhone, Gmail and blogs - a corporate security nightmare
News V is for Virus variants One big problem is people just leave the security enabled by the phone, which is usually nothing. The emergence of increasingly sophisticated media-centric consumer... [15 Jun 2007]
Q&A: Kimmo Alkio, CEO, F-Secure
News Alkio: The public perception is that this industry may have become less active because three, four years ago there were these very high visibility public virus outbreaks. We are protecting today and pre-empting a future... [01 Jun 2007]
Leader: Laptop as the most personal device?
Leader Long-time Intel exec Sean Maloney - credited with much of the company's recent success in wireless - even demoed a machine that had been hit by a virus, hung but was heroically repaired by a remote engineer tapping in... [10 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.04.07
Round-Up With this in mind, the Round-Up was naturally alarmed to hear of a mobile phone virus that is capable of causing not just damage to data or devices but which can also cause certain death... [27 Apr 2007]
Security 2007: Data theft still the one to watch
News V is for Virus variants I don't have enough imagination to think of anything highly valuable to steal from a mobile phone. F-Secure is also predicting that 2007 will finally become the... [04 Jan 2007]
Are you on call 24/7?
News The IT security industry is one area where many people work round the clock or remain on call at all hours because virus writers in the Far East are unlikely to care what time it is in Aylesbury. Cluley said: "For a... [02 Aug 2006]
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