A powerful virus targeting smart phones in China … A botnet is an army of enslaved computers that its controllers can compromise for identity theft, use to launch attacks to shut down websites or turn into spam email servers. Still, the emergence of …
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Zhou Yonglin, an official with the National Computer Network Emergency Coordination Center, told CCTV that “in the first week of September, nearly 1 million cell phones in the country were infected with the virus.” And although telecom providers are said …
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LAS VEGAS — A computer security researcher has built a device for just $1,500 that can intercept some kinds of cell phone calls and record everything that’s said. The attack Chris Paget showed Saturday illustrates …
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