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First Mobile Phone Virus Discovered

Posted by michael on from the uh-oh dept.

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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  1. Nokia 3410 anyone? by The+One+KEA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is why I love my Nokia 3410. It's too simple to get easily hacked.

    Sometimes progress is not an advantage.

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  2. I don't get it... by Mz6 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This duplicate story gets accepted and posted, while my story about Akamai claiming they got attacked gets rejected... sigh...

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  3. This goes along with a BBC story... by jd · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Apparently, in London, it has become quite fashionable for yuppies to pick up "hot dates" by messaging everyone in the area via Bluetooth. The technique (if spamming can be called a technique) goes under the name of Toothing.


    So... adding a little danger to the thrills of Unprotected Toothing...

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  4. High scores by ThreeDayMonk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Duplicate posts by editor, according to a quick unscientific search on Google (site:slashdot.org dupe "posted by $name"):

    timothy - 114
    michael - 104
    CmdrTaco - 80
    Hemos - 32
    CowboyNeal - 22
    pudge - 12

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