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A quick guide to mobile malware (part 2)
This is the second article in a 3-part series on mobile malware. Why (should I be worried)? Last week I gave a brief summary of the kinds of threats a user might encounter on the smartphones of today. This week’s article is supposed to cover the reasons why a user would worry about mobile malware, [...]
A quick guide to mobile malware (part 1)
From late 2010 to the first few months of 2011, there’s been a fair bit of buzz in the tech media about how mobile malware may be the big IT security issue for 2011. (To be fair, I also said something similar in a previous post.) Even though PC threats are still hugely more prevalent, [...]
F-Secure Mobile Security in action
Zimry, a Malware Analyst in F-Secure’s Kuala Lumpur Labs, was recently doing some analysis on malware designed to infect Android phones. During the analysis, he ran some malicious samples on a smartphone installed with F-Secure Mobile Security to make sure the phone would be protected. Since Safe and Savvy has writing about mobile security, we [...]
Why removing rootkits is such a pain
Someone once made the comment, “Most people, I think, don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?” That was in in 2005, when rootkits were an unknown menace for most users. Nowadays, that isn’t quite the case any more, as the number of rootkit infections have exploded in the last few [...]
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A quick guide to mobile malware (part 3)
By aliafs