BBC experiments with smartphone cyber crime

Dawinderpal Sahota
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Broadcaster shows how easy it is to create a malicious application for a smartphone

The BBC has created a malicious smartphone app The BBC has attempted to show how easy it is for cyber criminals to hack smartphones by creating its own malicious app. The smartphone app was c...

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