First cell phone worm....

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:21 am

Warlock · Post by **Warlock** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:24 am

i had a funney felling this would happen one day

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:59 am

Well, this will become a problem when people use GPRS on a large scale.

Plus, I wouldn't be surprised that there are a good number of buffer overruns to be exploited in MMS messages, etc..

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 11:39 am

GPRS?

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 12:01 pm

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 12:13 pm

damn, the Palmpilot/Pager that CAP issued to me works primarily on BlueTooth. i sure hope the firewall they run can hold against it

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 12:18 pm

Once again, requieres stupid users to propogate. SQLSlammer/MSBlaster/Sassir are the real worms that can make an impact.

One day, some not so nice guy is going to exploit and vulnerability like the ones above did, propogate without any need of user intervention and do something nasty like CIH did and reset your CMOS. Then in a single stroke, majority of Internet connected PCs are down.

Viruses are getting pretty complicated. New ones are starting to exploit multiple vulnerabilities or paths of infection (like Plexus) and Zafi changes languages depending upon the email address. Somepeople are starting to spend a good amount of time on these things.