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Cabir cell phone threat worsens
December 28, 2004
With new, more powerful variants popping up, a security firm warns that cell phone worm's source code may be on the loose.
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Cabir mobile virus found in U.S.
February 18, 2005
Virus appeared in two phones in a Southern California shop window, possibly infected via Bluetooth wireless.
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Cabir worm code wriggles onto Web
December 30, 2004
Source code for variants of the cell phone worm is published online, raising fears that more offshoots are on the way.
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Lexus: Cabir won't infect our cars
February 17, 2005
In its blog, security software maker F-Secure posts excerpts from a Lexus statement defending its cars' safety from viruses.
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Hybrid Trojan horse aims at Symbian phones
December 22, 2004
Malicious program disguises itself as a video game, but it could mean "game over" for infected cell phones.
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Skulls program carries Cabir worm into phones
November 29, 2004
New version of the Skulls Trojan releases the cell phone worm, a security firm warns.
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Smart-phone worm has a hang-up
June 15, 2004
Researchers say the "Cabir" virus takes an approach that hampers its spread--it asks for permission to infect your phone.
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Car virus rumors taken out for a spin
May 10, 2005
After putting a Prius to the test, a team of antivirus experts concludes that cell phone viruses are unable to infect cars.
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Cell phones to get virus protection
March 10, 2005
Kaspersky Lab plans to release antivirus software for Symbian-based cell phones, recently the target of a Trojan and the Cabir virus.
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Trojan gets the cell phone message
March 7, 2005
Threat could be more pervasive than Cabir, as it uses multimedia text messaging as well as Bluetooth to spread.
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This week in viruses
March 11, 2005
Antivirus researchers are tracking a new Trojan horse that could prove to be a more pervasive threat to cell phones than Cabir
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First virus for Windows CE surfaces
July 16, 2004
Code's author, part of group that created Symbian virus, creates gentle bug to prove it can be done.
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TI teams to hang up cell phone crackers
June 29, 2004
Texas Instruments and ARM are "burying the security into the hardware," following the emergence of the first virus to target cell phones.
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Security from A to Z: Cell phone threats
November 27, 2006
Are mobile viruses a real threat? As cell phone sales grow, the question is more pressing. Part of a series on hot security topics.
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Smart phone owners are savvy about viruses
April 28, 2005
But many of them still keep sensitive information stored on the wireless handsets, according to a survey by Symantec.
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Skulls program kills cell phone apps
November 19, 2004
For some phones infected by the Trojan, the only real fix is a hard reset, which wipes all user data from the device.
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Week in review: Attack of the zombies
June 18, 2004
A denial-of-service outage hits Akamai and some of its top customers, and smart phones get their first-ever call from a worm.
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The phantom menace?
March 25, 2005
CNETAsia's Winston Chai wonders whether it's too early to hit the panic button on mobile viruses.
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