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 A group of Berkeley researchers take a long, hard look at mobile malware. What they found should interest you.

"Remote access tools have long been a major part of targeted hacker attacks on individuals and corporate networks."

Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash Alert Print Post commentRetweetFacebookCascading fail By John Leyden * Get more from this author Posted in Enterprise Security, 20th August 2010 15:03 GMT Malware may have been a contributory cause of a fatal Spanair crash that killed 154 people two years ago. Spanair flight number JK 5022 crashed with 172 on board moments after taking off from Madrid's Barajas Airport on a scheduled flight to Las Palmas on 20 August 2008. Just 18 survived the crash and subsequent fire aboard the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft. Spanair's central computer which registered technical problems on planes was infected by Trojans at the time of the fatal crash and this resulted in a failure to raise an alarm over multiple problems with the plane, according to Spanish daily El Pais.

Approximately 40 percent of small and midsize businesses have suffered a breach because of malware picked up by employees while visiting the Web, social networking sites.

"Many Windows PCs Still Vulnerable to Conficker Worm"