Chapter 3. Solutions in this chapter:
- Qualifying Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) in the Mobile Market
- An Historical Timeline of MM
- Future Threats
- Summary
- Solutions Fast Track
- Frequently Asked Questions
Introduction
In 2000, a VBScript worm spread in Spanish, sending notifications of the infection to telephones configured to receive e-mails. For many, this was the dawn of a new era of threats—those targeting mobile devices. Unfortunately, this historic incident was largely misunderstood and abused to promote various fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) agendas. Still, Timofonica (a.k.a., Telefonica and Timo) marks an important historic point in computing history, where mobile devices first experienced a notable security incident related to ...
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