http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8014111.stm By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter BBC News 23 April 2009 The widespread outbreak of mobile phone viruses will occur when a sufficient number of them share an operating system (OS), according to researchers. Viruses spread by Bluetooth could reach all users of a given OS in days, whereas those spread by multimedia messages could spread in just hours. But the virulence will only appear when a given OS has about 10% market share. This "percolation transition" was described at the Science Beyond Fiction conference in Prague. [...] -- LayerOne 2009, Information Security for the discerning professional. May 23-24 2009 @ The Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, California Visit http://layerone.info for more informationReceived on Fri Apr 24 2009 - 01:47:56 PDT
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