First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered

CHaN_316 writes "News.com.au is running an article about the First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered. The virus 'called Cabir - appears to have been developed by an international group specialising in creating viruses which try to show "that no technology is reliable and safe from their attacks"... until now it has had no harmful effect.' Cabir infects the Symbian operating system, and spreads via bluetooth. Great... lets see when we can download the world's first mobile phone anti-virus!"

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For the love of god check the front page

[Tuvai]

Because embarrassments like this only give ammunition to the trolls.

Bluetooth vulnerabilities

[arfuni]

Bluetooth being insecure isn't exactly news (or repeated news, for that matter). A lot of the first generation blue tooth phones had Bluetooth on by default. A friend of mine used to pull all sorts of malicious crap with a Nokia N-Gage. He would just sit in a busy mall hacking away at anyone who sits in the food court. If you have a blue tooth phone with no off setting get a replacement. ;)

Re:spreads via bluetooth huh....

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Going for an informative here... BT standard range is 10metres and long range 100metres. Of course metreage will vary.

Good reason to turn off your phone on the airplane :-).