It has been reported that a number of apps for smartphones running Windows Mobile that look like legitimate games also have autodialling functionality.

Inevitably, CanSecWest  2010 kicked off with the promised and eagerly-awaited Pwn2Own hacking contest, in which a number of effective protection strategies (DEP, code signing, ASLR [1]) failed to prevent determined vulnerability researchers making loadsamoney by circumventing them with attacks on Firefox and IE8 on Windows 7, Safari, and the iPhone. For details and extensive comment see: http://macviruscom.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/and-the-firewalls-came-tumbling-down/ http://kevtownsend.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/sacred-cows-fall-at-pwn2own/

Wearing my vendor-independent Apple/smartphone commentary hat, I've just posted a couple of blogs on the Mac Virus site that some of you might find of interest. OK, suit yourselves. ;-) "Touching (or Bumping) Base" addresses a mixed bag of issues: Charlie Miller's presentation on fuzzing for "20 zero-day holes … in closed source Apple products"