All entries tagged with "malware"

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Windows Mobile Trojan Spotted in the Wild

February 27, 2008 10:47 AM
File under Articles , Software

This is the first “in the wild” Windows Mobile malware I can remember off the top of my head....

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• malware
• spyware
• trojan
• virus

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McAfee Stirs the Pot: Windows Mobile Viruses Coming

September 10, 2007 8:54 AM
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Here we go again, McAfee has released a white paper (PDF link) telling the world that, yes Virginia, you can write malware for Windows Mobile.... Of particulata While mobile malware attacks have been scarce thus far, and some experts — including F-Secure wireless security guru Mikko Hypponen — have predicted that such threats will likely never rival widespread nature of today’s desktop viruses, McAfee maintains that as smartphones takeoff more exploit code will be written to target the machines.

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• malware
• mcafee
• virus

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Symantec Releases Antivirus for WM5

February 9, 2007 10:03 AM
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has announced its Mobile AntiVirus 4.0 for Windows Mobile, developed to work on Pocket PCs and smartphones running on the Windows Mobile 5.0 platform. The software automatically protects mobile devices from threats transmitted via e-mail and multimedia messaging service (MMS), downloaded from memory cards, the cellular network and Wi-Fi, transmitted by Bluetooth or beamed over infrared connections.

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• anti
• malware

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Company find Security Flaws in WM5

February 1, 2007 2:33 PM
File under Articles , Software

Stop the presses: A Microsoft software product has been found to have security flaws. Ok, cheap shot. And really, WM5 hasn't, to my knowledge, had any sort of catastrophic attack on it yet. Even this is just a report of a threat, not an actual attack (a report of a threat, one should note, from a company that wants to sell you software to protect you). Still, MS is on the case and, really, it should just be a matter of time before we really have to starting thinking about malware on our smartphones.

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• malware
• security
• windowsmobile

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MMS could infect (or at least crash) Windows Mobile

January 2, 2007 4:57 PM
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Well that’s bad news: The Register is reporting that it’s possible to send a malicious MMS to Windows Mobile phones (at least Pocket PC 2003 and Smartphone 2003 phones) that could possibly infect them with malicious code.... Security researchers have released proof-of-concept code that exploits vulnerabilities in MMS implementations in mobile phones running mobile versions of Windows.[…]Even in devices confirmed as vulnerable the attacker needs to know the correct memory slot where the MMS processing code is executing, so exploitation is far from easy.

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• malware
• mms

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