Where does your country sit on the fraud list? Just how much can you trust SMSes on Android? Is Apple serious enough about iOS security? And will Google’s End-To-End email encryption plugin save the world? Find out with Chet and Duck in this week’s Chet Chat podcast…
Tag Archives: SMS
Anatomy of an Android SMS virus – watch out for text messages, even from your friends!
Paul Ducklin looks into “Andr/SlfMite-A”, an Android SMS virus. The malware sends itself to your top 20 contacts and foists an third party app for an alternative Android software market onto your device… 
Orange bitten by data breach, leaks personal data from promotional messaging server
Current reports put the size of Orange’s latest data breach at 1,300,000 records. It seems that the data wasn’t stolen from one of Orange’s primary databases, but from an ancillary system used for sending promotional emails and SMSes.