Bluetooth advertizing scheme sparks virus fears
Iain Thomson writes in vnunet.com:
A newly developed Bluetooth advertising scheme could make mobile phone viruses more commonplace by teaching users bad habits, IT security experts told vnunet.com today.
The technique, known as Bluestreaming, has been pioneered by British firm Filter UK. It involves beaming pictures and music direct to people's mobile phones. The company had run a pilot with six sites in London railway stations and in a two-week period detected 87,000 phones capable of receiving the material, of which 17 per cent accepted the download.
"This is dangerous from a user behaviour point of view," explained Patrick Runald, senior technical consultant at F-Secure.
"We're trying to tell people not to accept things on their phones if they are beamed at them. All mobile viruses rely on the users accepting them in order to spread."
posted by Fergie @ 8/25/2005 08:56:00 AM
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