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.
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Stephen Withers
Thursday, 07 December 2006 10:17
Righard Zwienenberg - who identified and named the Nimda worm in 2001 - pointed to a confluence of several factors:
• SMS is a popular medium
• SMS can easily be sent from a computer, spoofing a real mobile number as the source
• Most mobile phones are now Internet capable and can open URLs embedded in SMS
• People are willing to click on links that are apparently interesting, especially if they seem to come from someone they know
Although most people have been well trained not to open URLs in emails, when it comes to URLs embedded in SMS "it's a new medium [and] they forget about all the security they have ever learned," he said.
Zwienenberg implied Norman would introduce AV products for BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones during 2007.
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