BBC Smartphone Malware : It Could Have Been Worse
News Security
Mark Ward, a BBC journalist, has created a malicious application for smartphones using software toolkits that are readily available to mobile developers and exposed some worrying truths. The article from Ward, who is the technology correspondent of BBC News, shows how easy it is to take a seemingly innocent mobile application and transform it into a booby-trapped honeypot. However whether the exercise has created more fear than warranted can be debated and the article...
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