Well then, I'm all for some uninformed US-bashing from time to time - it tends to keep things interesting - but this reaction is completely out of line.
It looks exactly like something some extremist nutcase like al-zarqawi says every time he or his clan murdered innocent people: "The US people are surpressed by their evil scum leaders: dispose of them, or the inevitable outcome will be the further degradation of your personal safety".
Is this a direct threat or what?
Insightful my heiny.
I own a Nokia 60-series phone and much to my surprise I encountered the above mentioned predecessor (Caribe/Cabir) in the wild. (Yep, my bluetooth's always on)
I received over 20 identical messages by Bluetooth messaging, all containing a single application-installation file: caribe.sis
I had to approve the reception of the message first before I could view the contents. As I browsed the message contents, a further warning that it contained an application was issued, and I image the standard "not-signed" warning would as well if I'd try to actually install it.
That's 3 warnings I would have to ignore before the virus is installed. Surely in this day and age anyone's brains would have kicked in and wonder whether it would be a wise idea to install an unknown program sent to you by an anonymous stranger? Mobile-phone virii are all still very proof-of-concept in my book...
Dutch news-site (with a fairly large, non-techie audience) nu.nl was affected as well, a large warning was put up Saturday.
The warning (sorry, dutch only) mentioned that until Sunday afternoon, they received 1300 requests for help from possibly-affected visitors.
As far as accountability goes, it was nice to see the publisher, Ilse Media, put up a clear FAQ and even a special-purpose contact-form to accomodate for their not-web-savvy users.
They also mentioned further statements from Falk AG were forthcoming Monday 22nd.
Using an alternative browser, with AdBlock installed, I wasn't affected myself...
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Well then, I'm all for some uninformed US-bashing from time to time - it tends to keep things interesting - but this reaction is completely out of line.
It looks exactly like something some extremist nutcase like al-zarqawi says every time he or his clan murdered innocent people: "The US people are surpressed by their evil scum leaders: dispose of them, or the inevitable outcome will be the further degradation of your personal safety".
Is this a direct threat or what? Insightful my heiny.
I own a Nokia 60-series phone and much to my surprise I encountered the above mentioned predecessor (Caribe/Cabir) in the wild. (Yep, my bluetooth's always on)
I received over 20 identical messages by Bluetooth messaging, all containing a single application-installation file: caribe.sis I had to approve the reception of the message first before I could view the contents. As I browsed the message contents, a further warning that it contained an application was issued, and I image the standard "not-signed" warning would as well if I'd try to actually install it.
That's 3 warnings I would have to ignore before the virus is installed. Surely in this day and age anyone's brains would have kicked in and wonder whether it would be a wise idea to install an unknown program sent to you by an anonymous stranger? Mobile-phone virii are all still very proof-of-concept in my book...
Dutch news-site (with a fairly large, non-techie audience) nu.nl was affected as well, a large warning was put up Saturday.
The warning (sorry, dutch only) mentioned that until Sunday afternoon, they received 1300 requests for help from possibly-affected visitors.
As far as accountability goes, it was nice to see the publisher, Ilse Media, put up a clear FAQ and even a special-purpose contact-form to accomodate for their not-web-savvy users.
They also mentioned further statements from Falk AG were forthcoming Monday 22nd.
Using an alternative browser, with AdBlock installed, I wasn't affected myself...