Cell phone IM malware reportedly on the loose
Textually.org has coverage of files being
IMed to cell phones that will scan for passwords and credit card numbers. In conjunction with last week's RFID virus, this is just a reminder
that no matter what a new platform is, there's going to be danger there. The increasing automation of that danger
crossed with the increasing intimacy with which we engage these technological platforms seems the biggest cause for
concern. Know what I mean? Evil actions by a human being that I may or may come in contact with are one end
of this spectrum, an evil bot jumping from cell phone to cell phone is close to the other end of that spectrum.
1. Thanks, Marshall. You have given me my question of the week for my students at school.
We simply have got to educate people that can become legislators to be able to keep up with the cybercrime that paralyzes genuine innovation and slows our computers to a choke.
We discussed this several weeks a go in our discussion of viruses and talked about how PDA and cell phone viruses would be the next big issue.
Now cell phones can slow down as we have to buy Norton Antivirus for cell phone! Give me a break!
Posted at 8:46PM on Mar 19th 2006 by Vicki Davis