Cell Phones Increasingly Attractive To Hackers
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Early this month, several Web sites began offering software promising ringtones and screensavers for certain cell phones. But those who downloaded the software found that it turned every icon on their cell phones' screens into a skull-and-crossbones and disabled their phones, so they could no longer send or receive text messages or access contact lists or calendars.
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Universities have become attractive targets for hackers who are taking advantage of the openness of the schools' networks, their decentralized security and the personal information they keep on millions of young adults.
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Exclusive images caught by picture phones are starting to make their way into big headlines.
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Security systems can now block the  first computer viruses attack on cell phones, but the mobile  industry sees new risks stemming from upcoming open software  platforms such as Google's Android.
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This summer mobile phone operators in Europe were warned that within a year the heavy reliance on Java-powered cell phones and handhelds would make the devices a likely target for attackers.
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The latest generation of mobile phones is vulnerable to hackers, a security conference is told.
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Hackers have found a way to use Apple Inc's iPhone on networks other than AT&T Inc's, opening up the coveted device to rival carriers and overseas customers, according to a Web report on Friday.
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Malicious programs that can delete address books. Junk messages that flood a cell phone&#39;s inbox. Stealthy code that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to sneak onto handsets.
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Science & environment: Mobile operator insists few customers are hacking their phones, despite evidence that unlocking is rife
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Hackers could take control of an iPhone if its owner visits a doctored Web site or Internet hotspot, security researchers reported Monday.
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Security researchers warn that Apple's iPhone may inspire a new hacker crime wave, becoming a major target in 2008.
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Security experts are saying plagues like programs that can delete address books, junk messages that flood a cell phone&#39;s inbox and a code that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to sneak onto handsets that target cell phones are only present in labs.
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Malicious programs that can delete address books. Junk messages that flood a cell phone's inbox. Stealthy code that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to sneak onto handsets. Scared yet? Security experts say plagues like these will target mobile phones, but others contend cell phone viruses are the tech equivalent of smallpox: To the best of anyone's knowledge, they exist only in labs.
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Printed symbols called SpotCodes can help cellphones with cameras find their way around cyberspace.
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The jarring polychromatic din of ringing cell phones is increasingly being thwarted - from religious sanctuaries to India's parliament to Tokyo theaters and commuter trains - by devices originally developed to help security forces avert eavesdropping and thwart phone-triggered bombings.
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Music, ringtones, cameras, browsers and other 'extras' have become the norm among mobile devices.
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MALICIOUS programs that can delete address books, junk messages that flood a mobile phone&#39;s inbox and stealthy code that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to sneak onto handsets.