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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Palm WebOS cracked via text message

Posted by Digg RSS Search for smartphone on April 20, 2010

Palm's WebOS, the software on which the company's Pre smartphone is based, is 'riddled' with dangerous security flaws, according to security researchers who said they were able to crack the operating system via text message.

Malware found on out-of-the-box Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone (Computer Weekly)

Posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for title:smartphone on March 10, 2010

Security researchers report that malware has been discovered on a Vodafone HTC...

Malware found on out-of-the-box Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone - ComputerWeekly.com

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Malware found on out-of-the-box Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone
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Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm (The Register)

Posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for title:smartphone on March 9, 2010

WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone "botnet" under the guise of installing an apparently innocuous weather app.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Stop B4 u download! Apps Could Secretly Pass Your Data Back

Posted by Digg RSS Search for smartphone on March 8, 2010

Security researchers have installed potentially dangerous software on thousands of smartphones to illustrate a new security threat. They believe their creation is the first ever demonstration of a mobile "botnet".