Joke Text Message Triggers Terror Alert
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An Italian tourist aboard a flight from Sydney to Vienna caused an international security alert after he sent a joke text message from his cell phone to his wife claiming his plane had been hijacked by terrorists, the Australian government confirmed Sunday.
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CAIRO -- The Cairo woman stared in disbelief at the text message in her cellphone inbox.
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NEWTOWN, Pa., Sept. 19 -- The news reached a few students at the George School on Monday night in an e-mail carrying the subject line "You are kidding!?"
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An insistent upgrade alert from AOL is annoying some users of its IM service.
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It's funny how many times over the past three years that "terrorist" threats have popped up whenever the Bush administration either wants something or is trying to distract people from its problems.
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Coming soon to a phone near you: spam, scams and viruses galore. Your text messages, address book and calls could be up for grabs. By Annalee Newitz from Wired magazine.
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Yet more URL manipulation mischief 02 has plugged a security hole that allowed customers to view text messages sent by other UK subscribers online.â¦
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com December 28, 2004, 3:36 PM PT. Reporting a new crop of variants, a security firm warned that the Cabir cell phone malware is becoming more of a threat.
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Boston's police, facing an upsurge in murder and other violent crimes, have set up a system to allow witnesses to tip them off to crime by sending anonymous text messages.
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Techniques designed to make suspects incriminate themselves through calls or texts
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Here's how nontechnical users can secure their own instant-messaging conversations such that an attacker is unable to listen in (be it the government or a nosy neighbor).
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Looks like the time has come when mobile users would have to seriously consider getting some protection for their devices. Mobile viruses are coming out pretty regularly now and trend seems to be pointing towards a frantic future.
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Shampoo, iPods and Starbucks lattes have suddenly become security threats. Terrorists could easily slip a few apparently innocuous items past airport security and assemble them into a lethal explosive once aloft, security experts said.
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When a masked freshman came to campus at St. John's University with what police said was a loaded rifle sticking out of a bag, the school alerted students via cell-phone text messages within 18 minutes.
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An ingenious new trojan is hijacking PCs to send SMS-based spam to mobile phones. After a PC has been infected, the Delf-HA trojan contacts a website for details on which spam campaign to run and then randomly
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A bomb threat against the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Thursday was conveyed to authorities by a pair of cell phone text messages signed, "al Qaeda," local officials said.
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The FBI said Tuesday the possible terrorist plot reported against Boston by a tipster last week was a false alarm, and Mexican authorities said it could have been motivated by revenge or might have been a joke.