Mobile Security News archives

PC alert over mobile-phone worm

Filed Under: Mobile Security News
Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Antony Savvas
Computer Weekly

Security software company Trend Micro says a new mobile-phone virus is now in the wild and infecting users.

Trend said the Symbos_cardtrp.a virus originated in Symbian Series 60 mobile phones and could spread to PCs running Windows.

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Locals hit by mobile virus that sends lewd messages

Filed Under: Mobile Security News
Thursday, June 16th, 2005

I-BN Online

Several mobile phone users recently experienced the real danger of a virus attacking their sets through Multi-media Messaging Service (MMS), when the virus spread by sending messages to all their contacts listed in the infected phones’ address books.

Read more about MMS attack…



Orange cracks down on dual threat of email

Filed Under: Mobile Security News
Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Will Sturgeon
silicon.com

Mobile phone operator Orange has announced a plan to roll out email monitoring across 14,000 workstations in its UK offices - citing the dual threat of viruses and spam as reasons.

Read more about Orange’s email monitoring…