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Article: SECURITY WATCH.(Technology)
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- American Banker
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- July 22, 2009
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Byline: Daniel Wolfe
Spreading a Virus
As cell phones become more like portable computers, they are also becoming vulnerable to teh same threats that affect computers, including viruses.
Many computer viruses are designed to propagate themselves by making an infected machine forward the malicious software to other computers by e-mail.
Security vendors have recently spotted viruses that target mobile phones and are designed to spread through text messages instead of e-mail, according to an article Computerworld published July 16.
And like other viruses, these cell phone bugs can potentially steal data stored on mobile phones ...