Subject: Re: [NEXTEL-1] Major Problems with Cingular Network

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:15:21 -0400

It's only a matter of time...........

On 9/28/03 [email-masked] wrote:

> With the introduction of devices like Moto's smart phone that incorporates a Microsoft like operating system we will start seeing virus attacks at the Subscriber level in the next year or sooner.
> Hackers will take malicious viruses to a new level once the discover over the air vulnerabilities of each network. In the late 1990's we had a cellsite Hi-Jacked by a former employee turned hacker. He later passed his intimate knowledge to other hackers and the network was subject to various limited attacks. This was the 1st over the air attack I saw on  a CDMA network. The FBI caught the former employee, Nortel loaded a "patch" and the problem was solved.

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Rx For Handheld Virus Threat: Prevention
So far, handheld-specific viruses have not created a big problem, but security
software developers say the threat of malicious attacks increases as new
applications are developed.

OCTOBER 1, 2003

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"It's only a matter of time before the writers of viruses view [the handheld
platform] as an interesting area as [device] numbers grow," says John Muir, vice
president of corporate development for Pointsec Mobile Technologies Inc., a
developer of enterprise security services for mobile devices.