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Analysis on RIM vs Indian Government case

This is the serial post on the fable about RIM versus the Indian government. In March 12, I wrote about the trigger of this serial. The point actually very simple. What Indian government really want here is that RIM would let them to access all messages that run on the RIM’s server. They were just afraid [...]

Terror via SMS in Indonesia; Ring in Red

Is this truly exist? About a couple of days ago, Indonesia’s cellphone users (later including Brunei) were shocked by such a terror via SMS. This terror, which later popular as “SMS Merah” or “Red SMS” or “Ring in Red” (in english) has surprisingly causing a physical attack that harmed its recipients. One of them is a [...]

Worm spreads out among Nokia handset

Fortinet, a security vendor, announced that several worms have been infected various models of Nokia phone. Fortinet’s threat response team warned on Monday that the worm, identified as SymbOS/Beselo.A!worm, is able to run on several Symbian S60 enabled devices. These include handsets such as Nokia 6600, 6630, 6680, 7610, N70 and N72 handsets.