From Techdirt (here) Just when you think you are safe…Kaspersky (here) drags a German TV crew into a Faraday cage to show them how devastating Cabir, the world’s most only virulent semi-infectious (when forced to spread manually in Faraday cages) strain of mobile malware, really is – it is only a small leap from manufactured media stunt to full-blown, thermo-nuclear war resulting in the rise of the machines – the end of days is nigh brothers!
I was at a seminar yesterday with a speaker from HTC, the manufacturers of mobile devices running Windows Mobile. With the increase in these devices, we’re probably going to see a derth of new attacks targeted at these devices.
The problem is that we tend to forget our security brain once we leave our laptop/desktop environment(ok, if we did have security brains to begin with!), and start downloading crap onto our handheld devices.
Or maybe I’m just imagining things….
Mobile malware threats will rise in importance over the next several years, but dragging a film crew into a Faraday cage is over the top