Apple’s notoriously closed eco-system has always proved to be a double-edged sword – while it remains safe and sound (most of the time anyways) from viruses, spyware and malware, that does not mean it is 100% foolproof. For a malicious app to make its way into Apple’s heavily guarded and scrutinized App Store, you would [...]

The Indian government has banned all Chinese-manufactured phones for security reasons. This development comes in the wake of reports that the said China-made phones may come with spyware or malware that offers intelligence agencies across the border access to telecom networks in India. Among the manufacturers that would be hard hit by this would be [...]

According to a report made by the antivirus company Panda there are a few thousand HTC Magic smartphones that are infected with a botnet malware named Mariposa. This case is limited to 3,000 handsets sold by Vodafone, in Spain, and according to them this is an “isolated accident”. In addition to the Mariposa botnet there [...]

If you happen to be among the many Symbian S60 phone users then beware. Researchers from various security firms have discovered a new mobile threat that targets Symbian phones. The worm features a signed Symbian certificate and propagates by sending malicious links via SMS to all numbers in a phone’s memory. F-Secure characterizes this mobile [...]