Last week, Kaspersky Lab experts detected a new malicious program for Symbian that targets customers of an Indonesian mobile phone operator. The Trojan is written in Python, a script language. It sends SMS messages to a short number with instructions to transfer part of the money in the user’s account to another account, which belongs [...]
While Android-based smartphones is yet to be populated to every part of the world, SMobile Systems has announced its releases of first antivirus software for Android, called SMobile virusGuard. VirusGuard is the first commercially available mobile security solution specifically developed to protect devices utilizing the Google Android operating system.
F-Secure and Nokia are bringing their solutions to TeliaSonera to facilitate effective mobile device management for the SME segment. TeliaSonera will provide device management for SMEs as a hosted service for its enterprise customers. The Managed Device -solution combines the Nokia Intellisync Device Management platform and F-Secure Mobile Security solution, which together enable security for [...]
AT&T has announced the availability of managed security services that help businesses protect their data - AT&T Encryption Services. AT&T Encryption Services is focused on the protection of information by providing encryption services and management of digital signatures “in the cloud”.
LG has entered into a license agreement with Iridian Technologies, to license proprietary iris recognition software from Iridian. Though, they do not mention if this will be use for mobile phone or their other products.
Although there isn’t iPhone virus on the net yet, beta version of McAfee’s anti virus for iPhone has been found at http://ipkg.mcafeemobile.com/ and users have successfully installed/uninstalled the application.
Sybase iAnywhere today announced that its Information Anywhere suite Afaria component, which provides mobile device management and security capabilities, now supports the Symbian platform. Companies can leverage Afaria to manage and secure a range of mobile devices based on Windows Mobile, Palm and now Symbian handhelds, and Windows laptops.
F-Secure today announced its Mobile Security solution for the Windows Mobile platform. The application combines real-time antivirus and antispyware functionality with a firewall. A firewall provides additional security for all mobile devices that access public networks like Wi-Fi. The solution also delivers automatic over-the-air antivirus updates.
