So you think your Symbian Smartphone is safe!

Filed in archive Security by Umair Khalid on June 5, 2008

If you think your Symbian Smartphone is safe, then think twice. The security company F-Secure has identified an unsigned application used by a Spanish hacker, which shuts down all security processes of the Symbian devices and therefore allows any one to take complete control over the device. The only way of preventing this from happening is to watch out and not to have this application installed on your Symbian Device. Read more here.

Source: The Register

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