Setting up a mobile botnet is alarmingly easy to do

Maybe Cyber-Shockwave wasn't a total effort in futility?

"The relative easiness of setting up a mobile botnet of nearly 8,000 phones has been demonstrated by Derek Brown and Daniel Tijerina at this year's edition of the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

The two researchers with TippingPoint's Digital Vaccine Group built WeatherFist, a weather application for iPhones and Android smartphones, which is able to harvest information such as phone numbers and GPS coordinates from the phones of the people who downloaded it."

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