The most serious threat to your network might not come in through a web application vulnerability exploit, but clipped to the belt of a mobile professional. High-capability smart phones and wireless PDAs roam the world beyond your firewall then come sailing through the front door on the hip of a trusted employee. Security experts say that malicious code, transmitted by SMS to a mobile device and then transferred to the network through email synchronization, must be accounted for in any modern security plan.
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- read the article at Network World