Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Described as a "typical proof of concept virus", Podloso targets - if that's not too strong a word - iPods running Linux. How many iPods run anything other than Apple's standard software? One in a thousand? One in ten thousand?
Podloso must be deliberately installed and run by the user (so it's probably a Trojan rather than a virus, but what's in a name?), and then it alters all the executable .elf files it can find so when they are run they display a message on the screen which says "You are infected with Oslo the first iPodLinux Virus".
"Podloso has no malicious payload, and does not present a real threat; it simply demonstrates that it is, theoretically possible to create malicious programs for such devices," said Kaspersky officials.
So someone has written a program that can modify files - should we be impressed? The downside is that claims like Kaspersky's are likely to renew calls for iPods to be banned from workplaces because of some vague security risk.
David Bass
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