Why is it that banking trojans are a problem when all online banks are HTTPS secured and many of them employ multi-factor authentication?

The answer: Humans are not digital.

We have located the first iPhone worm, dubbed as Ikee. It's currently spreading in the wild, but it's only able to infect devices that have been "jailbroken" by their owners. Jailbreaking removes iPhone's protection mechanisms, allowing users to run any software they want.

Affected users will find that their iPhone wallpaper has been altered to a picture of Rick Astley (of Rickroll fame) and the message "ikee is never going to give you up".

With the recent attention on SMS spam, let's not forget to be careful on IM, that other favorite medium for spreading social engineered links.

I recently received a message from someone who sent me this link:

Which lead to a website where the user can supposedly view the uploaded photos by entering their MSN log-in credentials:

Thanks to an effective PR strategy, most probably everybody has heard about URLZone by now.

We checked for updates on the Mobile Tube page that was linked by SMS spam, which we posted about on Tuesday.

Now the fine print says that service is free of charge, and by using this service, the user gives the company rights to send information and promotional messages in the future.

Interestingly enough, the page used to have the company name at the bottom, that is now removed.

If the fine print on the page can be relied on, the SMS spam messages are now rather harmless.

One of our Helsinki based researchers received the following SMS message yesterday:

(w03.v762.net)

The message text is in Finnish and translates as "Video message, click". If the recipient clicks on the link he'll end up opening a page that looks like an advert for a service called "Mobile Tube". So, at first glance, this just looks like ordinary SMS spam.

This video describes how to use Power Scheme Management to control your power setting in your CMS7/SMS7 environment.

This video demostates how to use the Power Scheme Management to control the power setting for your computer equipment which includes both servers and desktops/laptop computer systems.

This video is a 24:17 minute video that describes how to use System Provisioning using the imagimg technology in CMS7/SMS7.

The solution includes some key features and concepts which are Personality or Profile Migration, Image Deployment to a existing remote system, and Image Deployment to a bare metal system.

It has been a while since we posted about SMS spam [older article, followup]

There has been lots of media coverage for the Yxe aka Sexy Space aka Sexy View mobile worm. So here's a Q&A to answer some questions on it:

Q: Why is this worm important?
A: It's the first text message worm in history.

Q: I thought text message worms were just urban legends!
A: Definitely not.

Q: How can you attach a worm into a text message?
A: You can't. Instead, the worm puts a web link pointing to the worm's web site into a text message.