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https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/bg-p/mobile_wireless Mobile & Wireless Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:33:09 GMT mobile_wireless 2009-01-06T13:33:09Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/A-Smart-Worm-for-a-Smartphone-WinCE-PmCryptic-A/ba-p/365445 We have already seen a file infector working on smartphones (see WinCE.Duts.A) and a worm that could spread by infecting storage cards (see WinCE.Infomeiti). Now, we have the first polymorphic worm (although some refer to it as a companion virus) that affects smartphones running Windows CE platform on ARM processors—it is known as WinCE.Pmcryptic.A. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:41:15 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/A-Smart-Worm-for-a-Smartphone-WinCE-PmCryptic-A/ba-p/365445 Andrea Lelli 2008-11-13T22:41:15Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Tall-Latte-Hold-the-Malware/ba-p/344760 There’s nothing like coffee one-upmanship to make the blood boil. “You’re still drinking lattes? With actual milk from a cow? Good grief, where have you been?” Nowadays though, it seems that coffee one-upmanship is no longer enough to secure the seemingly coveted “hippest person in the café” crown. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:20:52 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Tall-Latte-Hold-the-Malware/ba-p/344760 Henry Bell 2008-08-20T17:20:52Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/First-Sightings-of-Malicious-iPhone-Package/ba-p/306428 Reports started appearing on Saturday regarding the existence of malicious packages for the Apple iPhone. A package called "iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep", which was described as “An important system update. Install this before updating to Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/First-Sightings-of-Malicious-iPhone-Package/ba-p/306428 Orla Cox 2008-01-07T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Who-s-Spying-on-Whom-The-Future-of-Privacy-Invasion/ba-p/306427 Recently there have been several reports of security flaws in a product provided by a company called Mobile Spy. The product is an application for Windows Mobile smartphones. The application logs various forms of communication Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Who-s-Spying-on-Whom-The-Future-of-Privacy-Invasion/ba-p/306427 Téo Adams 2007-11-29T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Security-Issues-amp-COTS-Mobile-Operating-Systems-Some-Very/ba-p/306426 I was interested in getting some rough numbers on publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Symbian and Windows CE/Mobile platforms and applications. I cannot say with any degree of confidence that what I present below is reflective, Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Security-Issues-amp-COTS-Mobile-Operating-Systems-Some-Very/ba-p/306426 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-11-20T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Google-s-Android-Phone/ba-p/306424 All of the recent rumors about Google releasing a "gPhone" were finally put to rest with their release of Android, which is a software stack for mobile devices. Android includes an operating system (Linux), middleware, Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Google-s-Android-Phone/ba-p/306424 Eric Chien 2007-11-12T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Windows-CE-amp-Mobile-Advisories-Elvis-has-left-the-building/ba-p/306423 Well, we’ve arrived at where we’ve been trying to get to for some time. That is to say that we now have the ability to release security advisories for Windows CE & Windows Mobile after Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Windows-CE-amp-Mobile-Advisories-Elvis-has-left-the-building/ba-p/306423 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-11-08T08:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/A-Tip-of-the-Hat/ba-p/306422 On the day I got my iPhone I submitted a bug report to Apple. It wasn’t truly a bug, but I didn’t know of a better way to express my disappointment involving the absence of Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/A-Tip-of-the-Hat/ba-p/306422 Scott Roberts 2007-10-24T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Rogue-Access-Points-Back-doors-into-your-Network/ba-p/306421 Let's say that an employee in your company gets a new laptop. He's excited about the laptop's WiFi capabilities, but the company he works for doesn't have wireless capabilities. What's he do? One option is Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Rogue-Access-Points-Back-doors-into-your-Network/ba-p/306421 Ron Bowes 2007-10-16T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Getting-Ready-to-Respond-to-Mobile-Security-Issues/ba-p/306417 O.K. - firstly - long time no blog. Secondly, apologies for that - a mixture of vacation, work, and work travel has recently seen me distracted a little from my blogging duties (my plate spinning Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Getting-Ready-to-Respond-to-Mobile-Security-Issues/ba-p/306417 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-10-15T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Mobile-VoIP-a-privacy-accident-waiting-to-happen/ba-p/306416 Further to the research already done on unlicensed mobile access (UMA) by our security researchers, I've been looking at a couple of alternatives to UMA services. As you’ll recall, most UMA threats surround increased exposure Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Mobile-VoIP-a-privacy-accident-waiting-to-happen/ba-p/306416 Michael White 2007-10-11T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/One-More-Crack-at-the-WEP/ba-p/306414 Wireless Equivalency Protocol (WEP) has been one of the hottest topics in Irish news over the last few days. One of the leading providers of DSL in Ireland has supplied users with wireless routers protected Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/One-More-Crack-at-the-WEP/ba-p/306414 Patrick Fitzgerald 2007-10-03T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Muni-Wi-Fi-security-Part-III/ba-p/306375 So far in this series, I've posted a blog that talked about municipal Wi-Fi security in general and a second blog that talked specifically about Wi-Fi network identification. In this post, I want to cover Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Muni-Wi-Fi-security-Part-III/ba-p/306375 Brian Hernacki 2007-08-30T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Mobile-Executable-Compressors-Hide-and-Seek-2-0-for-Lilliputians/ba-p/306413 On the desktop we have many different executable compactors, compressors and encryptors. These are used to protect and/or obfuscate binary files. These can be employed by software authors and malicious code authors to protect their Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Mobile-Executable-Compressors-Hide-and-Seek-2-0-for-Lilliputians/ba-p/306413 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-07-20T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Even-Symbian-9-Spyware-Can-Get-Signed/ba-p/306412 With the advent of Symbian 9 came a new capabilities model that could be seen as akin to mandatory access control, or MAC, which I’ve touched on briefly in the past . If you’re interested Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Even-Symbian-9-Spyware-Can-Get-Signed/ba-p/306412 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-07-16T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/iPhone-Redux/ba-p/306411 Some of us (Ollie Whitehouse, Eduardo Tang, and myself) are happy owners of the iPhone. However, not because we are constantly listening to music or using a pinching motion with our fingers to see pictures Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/iPhone-Redux/ba-p/306411 Eric Chien 2007-07-10T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Windows-CE-Mobile-Rootkits/ba-p/306406 If you Google for either "Windows CE", "Windows Mobile" along with "rootkits" [1] [2] you don’t find anything on the subject. Back in the early part of this year I started a little skunk-works project Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Windows-CE-Mobile-Rootkits/ba-p/306406 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-07-03T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Dialing-for-Trojans/ba-p/306405 Many people have said that the lack of attacks upon Apple’s operating systems and devices can be attributed to a lower market share than Microsoft Windows-based PCs. With the shift towards malicious code being written Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Dialing-for-Trojans/ba-p/306405 Marc Fossi 2007-06-25T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Attack-Surface-Analyses-of-Windows-Mobile-6/ba-p/306403 So time for another Mind Map. My generic one for Mobile devices last time was received pretty well. I put together the one below for Windows Mobile 6 as part of an internal research project Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Attack-Surface-Analyses-of-Windows-Mobile-6/ba-p/306403 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-06-04T07:00:00Z https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Windows-Mobile-6-File-Encryption-and-Incident-Response/ba-p/306402 With the advent of Windows Mobile 6 came a file system filter driver for encrypting data on Secure Digital (SD) cards, which are frequently used to store sensitive data. Previously, to gain access to users' Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:00:00 GMT https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Mobile-Wireless/Windows-Mobile-6-File-Encryption-and-Incident-Response/ba-p/306402 Ollie Whitehouse 2007-04-24T07:00:00Z