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Rupert Goodwins: Mobile Phone Viruses Are Coming
News The key to GSM viruses is the SMS or Short Message Service. As phones get more intelligent and programmable, the potential to write viruses that bypass the SIM security altogether becomes greater. For any hacker intending to write the first mobile...
[June 8, 2000, 15:06]
News Roundup: Dialling Up Mobile Phone Viruses
News Mobile phone viruses could be a real threat, say the UK's mobile phone operators, but the Timofonica worm that appeared earlier this week isn't anything to worry about. Rupert Goodwins: Mobile phone viruses are coming -- Thu, 08th Jun 2000
[June 8, 2000, 14:39]
Mobile Phone Vulnerable To DoS Attack
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Security News Section. US-based security company @stake has released a security advisory detailing a Denial of Service (DoS...
[February 26, 2003, 13:23]
IBM Report Cites Mobile Phone Hacking Risks
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section. However, the technique only works on the first-generation of global system for mobile...
[May 8, 2002, 8:57]
Mobile Phone Virus Doubles The Danger
News Mobile phone viruses, largely considered a paper tiger in the digital security world, became a bit more dangerous this week with the release of a two-pronged program. Only recent mobile phone operating systems are programmable to the extent that...
[January 11, 2005, 8:05]
Car Virus Rumours Crushed
News Antivirus experts have concluded that mobile phone viruses are unable to infect cars. Technicians at F-Secure announced on Monday they had quashed rumours that mobile phone viruses could spread to cars via Bluetooth, after failing to infect the...
[May 9, 2005, 17:55]
Timofonica Virus 'blown Out Of Proportion'
News Mobile phone viruses could be a real threat, say the UK's mobile phone operators, but the Timofonica worm that appeared earlier this week isn't anything to worry about. But the public's interest in Timofonica highlights a wider point, say experts...
[June 8, 2000, 14:17]
Symbian Hits Back Over Security
News Mobile phone operating-system maker Symbian has reacted to growing media and security industry concern about the threat of mobile phone viruses, stating categorically that users are in no danger of getting a virus on their handset.
[September 6, 2005, 10:40]
Security Firms Scrap Over 'mobile Viruses'
News Earlier this month, F-Secure was questioned over hyping mobile phone viruses in a bid to sell antivirus products. Earlier this month a spokesman for mobile phone carrier O2 told silicon.com that the issue of mobile phone viruses was "massively over...
[September 23, 2005, 9:55]
Cell Phone Viruses: What? Those Really Exist?
Blog Cell Phone Viruses: What? At MyMobiSafe.com, as we continue to uncover increasing numbers of mobile viruses it makes us shutter to think about how many mobile users will fall victim to their fury. Let’s take those 30 contacts on your cell phone...
[June 4, 2007, 19:36]
Smartphone Virus Hype Dismissed
News A company which handles support for major mobile operators has hit back at research published at the end of April by antivirus giant Symantec that suggested users are wising up to a growing threat of mobile phone viruses.
[May 5, 2005, 18:00]
Security 'hit-list' For 2007 Revealed
News IT managers are being warned of the threats that are likely to keep them awake at night in 2007, with laptop security, VoIP and the contentious issue of mobile phone viruses all featuring on one organisation's 'hit-list'.
[October 3, 2006, 8:45]
Security Firm Probes Reports Of Car Viruses
News Some mobile phone viruses already exist, such as Cabir and Skulls which spread by Bluetooth and infect handsets based on the Symbian operating system. Antivirus companies are researching reports that computer viruses have attacked the onboard...
[January 26, 2005, 13:35]
Smartphone Virus Code Published Online
News Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said users should be cautious about installing applications on their phone as more viruses may be written now the code is freely available. Although viruses for mobile phones have to date been...
[December 30, 2004, 11:05]
Mobile Phone Worms Pose Massive Threat
News Chien believes that there are three main factors limiting the appearance of viruses on mobile phones. These viruses could spread very quickly," says researcher David Chess. We believe we'll see these viruses in the future," says Eric Chien, chief...
[May 19, 2000, 14:31]
Symbian Smartphones Hit By Virus-spreading Trojan
News However, Cabir's spread -- and the spread of all phone viruses -- is severely curtailed by the need for users to accept and install the programs. To date, Trojan horses and proto-viruses aimed at smart phones have mostly failed to spread.
[December 22, 2004, 8:50]
Bluetooth Viruses Pose Growing Threat
News Experts have predicted that more viruses targeted at mobile phones and PDAs will emerge in 2005. There will also be a change in the way that viruses are spread, they say, with an increase in the number of viruses that spread wirelessly between...
[January 5, 2005, 13:25]
Phone/PDA Viruses Loom On The Horizon
News Soon however, mobile phone makers will add more Web enhancements to phones, leaving them susceptible to digital viruses. There is no risk for any viruses on any mobile phone protocols today. So far, mobile phones have been free from viruses.
[September 29, 2000, 16:19]
Cabir Spotted In The US
News It's by far the most damaging of the small family of mobile phone viruses to date. Cabir and the growing number of mobile phone viruses mainly target three mobile operating systems: Symbian, Windows Mobile and a third in use by NTT DoCoMo, one of...
[February 21, 2005, 8:05]
Palm Gets First Antivirus Protection
News Security experts have dismissed recent reports concerning PDA/phone viruses and Trojan horse programs as alarmist. Most, however, agree that as mobile platforms get more powerful and carry more sensitive information the risk from computer viruses...
[September 20, 2000, 14:32]
