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Vodaphone Spain Admits Shipping Thousands of Infected Smartphones
Published on 19 Mar, 2010 at 8:34 in Cloud | Viewed 603 times | No Comments
Earlier this week, The New New Internet reported that Vodaphone Spain has shipped two pre-infected smartphones to security researchers at Panda Security and S21Sec. After each incident, a Vodaphone Spain spokesman claimed that the incidents were isolated.
Late yesterday, however, the company admitted to the Spanish press, that it shipped 3,000 smartphones that may be infected with Mariposa botnet malware. The admission came following a meeting…
Vodafone Spain Provides Botnet Smartphone
Vodafone Spain has provided a pre-infected smartphone to a researcher at S21Sec, one week after a similar incident in which the company provided an infected smartphone to a researcher at Panda Security. The smartphones are infected with the Mariposa botnet client and other malware.
Both of the smartphones were order at approximately the same time, according to The Register. When the incident with Panda Security occurred, Vodafone claimed that it…
Experts at RSA Conference Call for Greater International Collaboration
Published on 4 Mar, 2010 at 9:32 in Cyber | Viewed 1,374 times | No Comments
During the RSA conference in California this week, international cyber experts have called for increased international cooperation of cybersecurity issues. Information sharing is one of the principle methods that can be used to combat cyber attacks, as was recently demonstrated in the dismantling of the Mariposa botnet.
“It is pure nonsense to attempt to handle cyberscecurity only at…
