Traditionally, mobile networks were relatively safe places. The low CPU power of mobile device made using them for botnet attacks impractical – that is, until tethering and 3G dongles came along.
Mobile Business Briefing now reports the following:
Content delivery platform company Akamai said that “more than half of the observed mobile attack traffic” recorded by its servers originated from three countries: Italy (25 percent), Brazil (18 percent) and Chile (7.5 percent).
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Given that mobile phones have not been used for botnets so far, the conclusion we can draw here is that many Italians use wireless broadband…
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