Articles tagged with: Sms Spam and Virus

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, mms, mobile-messaging, text-messaging, walled-garden, chief-technology-officer, mobile-advertising, spam, cloudmark, smsc, storm

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, mms, spam, ringtone, symbian, smsc