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    News - Hacking on the rise - all around

    Hackers and malicious spouses on the rise as software and hardware become more flexible and accessible.
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    Re: News - Hacking on the rise - all around

    Are Symbian phones more susceptible to hacking, or is the image choice coincidental?

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    Re: News - Hacking on the rise - all around

    Haha! Good spot! Swapped out for something a little more appropriate. Sorry Symbian!

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    Re: News - Hacking on the rise - all around

    Quote Originally Posted by Scribe View Post
    Haha! Good spot! Swapped out for something a little more appropriate. Sorry Symbian!
    You've got to be having a laugh? An iPhone with full signal?

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    Re: News - Hacking on the rise - all around

    Quote Originally Posted by Hoonigan View Post
    You've got to be having a laugh? An iPhone with full signal?
    They had to take that shot on-top of an antenna, you have no idea how hard it was to keep to phones standing up in that wind!

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    Re: News - Hacking on the rise - all around

    Quote Originally Posted by The article
    with Bitdefender citing a 2,000 per cent increase in malicious applications for last year, with a prediction of a 6,000 per cent increase over the next six months
    If only BitDefender offered a mobile secur.... oh, wait.

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