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New virus attacks the Chinese mobile phones.

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Image by Getty Images via Daylife MSS Bomber - that's a terrible name got a new virus attacking cell phones people Celestial. Dangerous new "infection", above all, devices that are running OS S60 3rd OS. MSS Bomber, "climbing" on the mobile phone, the phone connects to the Internet and immediately begins to send messages Viruses on arbitrary numbers. The virus also possesses its own resources for protection - "Freeze" in the phone, he takes control some functions of the device in their hands, "thereby denying the user the possibility to remove the virus. To confront the threat has already released an updated version of antivirus solutions Mobile Anti-virus 3.2, which helps the Chinese to deal with the problem.

Safety: going up?

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Today I will speak again about security. Analytical articles of this type, I usually begin with quoting the definition given, for example, from Wikipedia or a similar source. This material will be presented to my subjective opinion. For all the years of work in the field of IT security, I formed a view on the regional situation as concerning only the RB, as well as global. Today I will try to show the real picture of things. To get started, I would like, once again, focus on the meaning of «security». Will use simple words and explain everything on the fingers, so to speak. The problem is that security itself is not an end product or result. Safety - is a continuous process, which reduces the risks to minimize or even remove some. There is no difference between security in the IT sector, or in any other. If we are talking about isolating the machine from the LAN or the Internet, it completely excludes the fact of breaking the network, while retaining the need to maintain data from dif...