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Skulls Trojan teams up with Cabir worm

Security experts have discovered the Skulls.B Trojan, which is starting to infect phones using the mobile phone worm Cabir. Read more »

Mobile Trojan launches Skulls attack

A new variant of the Skulls Trojan horse that affects Symbian mobile phones has been discovered. Read more »

Mobile phone virus tries leaping to PCs

A Trojan virus that attempts to spread from smart phones to users' PCs was discovered on Wednesday, marking one of the first cases of virus 'cross-sharing' between the two devices, according to security firm F-Secure. Read more »

Smartphone virus hype dismissed

A company which handles support for major mobile operators has hit back at research published at the end of April by antivirus giant Symantec that suggested users are wising up to a growing threat of mobile phone viruses. Read more »

First virus for Windows CE surfaces

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BlackBerry can be bitten by DoS attacks

A flaw that could cause denial-of-service attacks on Research In Motion's BlackBerry handheld devices has been discovered. Read more »

Worm ready to wriggle into smart phones

Antivirus companies on Monday in the US raced to decipher the workings of the first worm to target smart phones, while saying that the current incarnation of the program poses little threat. Read more »

Symbian boosts security and enterprise apps

Symbian OS v9 should power smartphones with better functionality, and more powerful protection against viruses. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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