Warning: Curse of Silence -:- Malware Hits S60 3rd Ed!??
Mobile Virology: Curse of Silence, a Symbian S60 SMS Exploit?
Now when the platform is hacked and just when we thought we know practically everything there was to know about the 3rd edition of the S60 platform and new security system, I stumbled upon something really interesting.
F-secure has just warned mobile phone users of a new worm which as is not S60 2nd Ed exclusive as usually and affects 3rd Ed devices as well.
Sounds bad but to be really honest with you, I'm not scared about it. At the risk of repeating myself I'll say again that there is no real danger if you are careful enough, actually, Smartphone users have to do a lot wrong to get infected and the latest exp... .. .
Now when the platform is hacked and just when we thought we know practically everything there was to know about the 3rd edition of the S60 platform and new security system, I stumbled upon something really interesting.
F-secure has just warned mobile phone users of a new worm which as is not S60 2nd Ed exclusive as usually and affects 3rd Ed devices as well.
Sounds bad but to be really honest with you, I'm not scared about it. At the risk of repeating myself I'll say again that there is no real danger if you are careful enough, actually, Smartphone users have to do a lot wrong to get infected and the latest exp... .. .
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Great. Another mobile phone worm, tsk tsk... I think that as long as we take necessary precaution then this would not be a problem at all.
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