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Group: comp.os.linux.advocacy · Group Profile
Author: Roy Schestowitz
Date: Jun 8, 2010 01:22

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Hackers plant viruses in Windows smartphone games

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| Hackers have planted viruses in video
| games for smartphones running on Microsoft
| Corp's Windows operating system, according
| to a firm that specializes in securing
| mobile devices.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6535TS20100604?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a49:g43:r2:c0...

Expensive malware appears for Microsoft's Windows Mobile

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| Malware embedded into legitimate-looking
| games designed for Windows Mobile has
| appeared, automatically dialing up foreign
| telephone services to ring up hundreds of
| dollars in illicit charges for users
| behind their backs.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/04/expensive_malware_appears_for_microsofts_windows_mobile...

Malware found lurking in apps for Windows Mobile

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20006882-245.html

Related:

McAfee: Trojan targets Windows Mobile

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| McAfee has unearthed a Windows Mobile PocketPC Trojan that disables security,
| installs via a memory card, can’t be uninstalled and makes itself your home
| page.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=904

Malware removes rival rootkits

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| Virus writers have competed for control of vulnerable PCs several times in
| the past. For example, in 2005 separate groups of hackers released a barrage
| of worms in a battle to seize control of Windows PCs vulnerable to the then
| infamous Windows Plug-and-Play (PnP) vulnerability.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/28/rootkit_wars/

Microsoft's executive shuffle expected Thursday

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| Also leaving is Pieter Knook, longtime head of Microsoft's Windows Mobile
| unit.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9871715-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3...

Microsoft cans key conference

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| SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has decided that it does not love its popular Mobile
| and Embedded DevCon any more and has pulled the plug.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/16/microsoft-cans-key-confer...

Cryptome: NSA has access to Windows Mobile smartphones

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| First time in history Cryptome.org has released information about the
| characteristics of NSA’s network surveillance.
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http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1028
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