Mobile Phone emerge as new virus targets

WHY DO MOBILE PHONES EMERGE AS NEW VIRUS TARGETS?

 According to Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Laboratory, mobile phones have become the focus of attacks by virus writers and hackers.

In recent research conducted by the Kaspersky Lab. finds that mobile phones and their users have had increasing attention paid to them by virus writers who have found a new playground to create chaos. Kaspersky said that according to the existing information, someone with a pseudonym of HSE has created a program called SMS Flooder. As the name implies, the software allows SMS (short message service) text messages to be sent in any volume to chosen numbers at any time.

According to the company, the hacking utility, which is coded in Visual Basic 5.0, uses some of the many Net E-mail-to-SMS gateway services, including www.free-SMS. com, www.sms-link. btn.de, www. nm-info. de, www. pc team. de and www. lycos.de.

As a result of its research, the anti-virus firm said it classifies the program as a malicious code. It, however, concludes that the program itself is not dangerous - just its potential result.

 WHY DO WE FAMILIAR WITH NETWORKS?

All networks cater to a common requirement and consist of interconnected service locations thereby giving benefits to everybody.

A network is a means by which computers share and exchange resources, LAN (Local Area Network) or globally, WAN (Wide Area Network). Using the technology of network means the use of business resources, enhancing productivity and efficiency, reducing cost, and gaining a competitive advantage.

Networking enables everyone in an organization to communicate with and share resources with everyone else-giving them access to data held on individual PCs, by remote office sites, or external suppliers and giving users the ability to share printers, fax, CD-ROM, modern technology, etc. Nowadays networks have linked thousands of workstations throughout the globe. So we are quite familiar with networks.