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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. It's like de ja vu all over again by s7uar7 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/15/124424 8&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=172

  2. Duplicate. by vojtech · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This has already been reported earlier today.
    The worm spreads through the BlueTooth interface
    and requires to be run by a human after receiving.

  3. first cell phone spam engine by jbeamon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Apparently, we've seen not only the first cell phone worm/virus, but the first one with a spam engine that submits copies of itself to slashdot all day.

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    -j