Is the mobile phone virus threat over-hyped?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Uncategorized on
I have just returned from a couple of days spent in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland, as the guests of IT security specialists F-Secure. During my visit I discovered many things: eating bear sausages and elk mousse gives you tummy ache, it is actually quite warm in Helsinki at this time of year (although you can ski to the F-Secure offices in winter), only 6% of the population speak Swedish and mobile phone viruses do actually exist.
That last factoid being the most surprising, it has to be said. Despite the many claims of how your mobile (be that a Bluetooth equipped handset or a fully fledged Smartphone) is the next target for those that would do you harm, steal your identity and empty your wallet, the truth is that since the first mobile phone virus was discovered by F-Secure a couple of years ago none of that hype has become reality. So why do I believe the problem is anything more than marketing collateral to get us to part money for a mobile phone anti-virus application, which F-Secure just happen to have developed?
Well, the fact that I have now seen a number of the known exploits in action might account for it. You see, at the F-Secure threat research labs there is a rather impressive looking RF shielded room that wouldn
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