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Articles tagged with: Mms and Virus
Viral epidemics poised to go mobile
If you own a computer, chances are you have experienced the aftermath of a nasty virus at some point. In contrast, there have been no major outbreaks of mobile phone viral infection, despite the fact that over 80 percent of Americans now use these devices. A team headed by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, director of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University, set out to explain why this is true. more
Related Tags: bluetooth, smart, operating-system
Mobile Operators Brace for Global Surge in Mobile Messaging Abuse
Messaging security firm, Cloudmark has published the results of its research into mobile messaging abuse trends in Asia, North America and Europe which point to a precipitous rise in mobile spam, phishing and virus attacks in 2008. more
Related Tags: google, sim-card, mobile-messaging, text-messaging, walled-garden, chief-technology-officer, mobile-advertising, spam, sms-spam, cloudmark, smsc, storm
Suspected Mobile Phone Virus Writer Arrested
Police in Spain have arrested a 28 year old man on suspicion of creating and distributing a computer virus which targeted mobile phones. The man, who has not been named is accused of creating over 20 variants of the Cabir and Commwarrior "worms" which targets Symbian based mobile phones, and spreading them though mms messages which claimed to have erotic images or news articles. more
The Calm Before the Storm for Mobile Viruses
The anti-virus software house, Kaspersky Lab has released its latest quarterly report. Alexander Gostev, Kaspersky Lab's Senior Virus Analyst, described this period as 'the calm before the storm'. In the period under review, there were there were only a few pieces of mobile malware which stood out from the mass of primitive Skuller- like Trojans: Comwar 3.0, Mobler.a, and Acallno. more
Related Tags: bluetooth, symbian, worm
Cellphone Virus Warning for City of London
Anti-virus vendor, McAfee has warned Londoner's using a Bluetooth service in the City of London to beware of Bluetooth transmitted mobile phone viruses. IBM has fitted the trees in the City of London with Bluetooth applications so mobile phone users in the area can access the latest scores from the Wimbledon tennis championships. more
Related Tags: ibm, bluetooth, london, helsinki
Enhanced Spam Filtering Could Block Independent Ringtone Suppliers
Jinny Software is launching a Spam Control Centre product, which directly addresses a fundamental mobile phone spamming issue, by allowing operators to automatically detect and block all types of unwanted content and harmful SMS and mms traffic from any foreign network. This is unlike traditional SMSC filters that only filter SMS spam from on-network traffic. The SMS support enhancement includes all traffic passing through the Spam Control Centre, whether to, or from, foreign SMSCs. All mms traffic is filtered by the solution, with MM1, MM3, MM4 and MM7 interfaces being supported. more
Related Tags: m1, spam, ringtone, symbian, sms-spam, smsc