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Smartphone Botnet

Two researchers from TippingPoint’s Digital Vaccine Group duped thousands of iPhone and Android smartphone users into joining a mobile botnet by spreading a seemingly innocuous weather application. Kelly Jackson Higgins at DarkReading writes that Derek Brown and Daniel Tijerina created a smartphone application called WeatherFist. Over 8,000 users downloaded WeatherFist, which grabbed information from users, [...]

Posted 13 March 2010 † RB § Security ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged:

Taxman Still Coming

Updated 04-13-2010 It is being reported that the U.S. House has scheduled for April 15th consideration of the Taxpayer Assistance Act of 2010—a bill whose major provision would remove cell phones and similar telecommunications devices as listed property, effective for tax year beginning after 2009.
Ways and Mean member John Lewis (D-GA) was [...]

Posted 06 February 2010 † RB § Legal § Policy ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: ,