The first known mobile phone virus was called Cabir, or Caribe. It was discovered in June 2004 and primarily targeted devices running the Symbian operating system, which was commonly used in Nokia ...

Leach added that Nokia will continue to use Symbian on low-end phones and does not see the platform disappearing anytime soon.

A group of leading mobile phone companies are teaming up to develop a common operating system in an attempt to thwart competition from the Google-backed Android project. The Symbian Foundation ...

with MMS vulnerabilities in Windows Mobile 2003 making it a particularly attractive option. While the popularity of Nokia phones made Symbian the lead platform for virus writers until 2010 ...

And wireless carriers said organizations such as the Symbian Foundation will alleviate a great deal of market confusion and disparity. "Mobile phones have turned into sophisticated multimedia ...