A new paper, Understanding the Spreading Patterns of Mobile Phone Viruses, from a group of scientists shows that the barriers are more likely market saturation and geography. The paper, written by Pu Wang, Marta C. Gonzalez, Cesar A. Hidalgo and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi of Northeastern University s Center for Complex Network Research, is not the kind of scare mongering we ve seen for years on the mobile threat. The authors focus on two distinct types of mobile malware: Bluetooth viruses and MMS viruses.
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