Re: "Handsets to become crime targets" (BBC; quotes report from GaTech)

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

I've begun research on a piece about how this claim has been made
constantly for the last 4 or 5 years at least. I know every year I get
pitched about how this is the year of mobile malware (and Linux on the
desktop of course)

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Paul Vixie
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 1:12 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] "Handsets to become crime targets" (BBC;quotes report
from GaTech)

"The annual Emerging Cyber Threats Report from the Georgia Institute of
Technology Information Security Center (GTISC) in the US has identified
mobile devices as particularly vulnerable platform."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7675882.stm
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