Showing posts with label vodafone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vodafone. Show all posts
Monday, February 6, 2017
Vodacom goes red like Vodafone
Vodacom goes red like Vodafone
Ive always wondered if Vodacom would ever adopt the Vodafone branding and yesterday it happened! Vodacom has rebranded to align themselves more obviously with Vodafone who now own 65% of this South African mobile services provider. Vodacom has retained their name (Vodafone + Telkom from the old days) but its been updated to the Vodafone type face and quote logo. The Vodacom blue has also been replaced with racy Vodafone Red.Hopefully the new look and feel wont require much more than a few cosmetic changes to the Vodacom website on the back of the Vodacom4me migration, however Vodacom is promising that the rebrand will come with much more than some new lipstick and will accompany many welcome improvements including network upgrades and customer service enhancements. I think the new look is awesome! and I am looking forward to all the new changes. @Vodacom is doing a great job on responding to all sorts of customer queries about the new look on Twitter and I caught this historic image of the old Vodacom logo while it was still cached in Vodacoms Twitter feed, capturing a little piece of Vodacoms brand evolution...
DefZA is in the process of updating his free SMS website to make use of vodacom.co.za since vodacom4me.co.za is now officially offline.
Free082SMS.co.za has also been updated to cope with the new website changes. The new Red Vodacom website at www.vodacom.co.za went down (understandably) as I was typing this post, but I was surprised by this very decent Vodacom maintenance page, which is a welcome improvement on any Vodacom error pages I have seen before.
Hopefully this is a sign of things to come, even if it means Vodacom is only going to start dealing with problems in a more elegant manner - A welcome change, even if they will not be retiring Mo the Meercat.Available link for download
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Vodafone stealing information using Botnet malware in phones Beware!!!!
Vodafone stealing information using Botnet malware in phones Beware!!!!
Guys Its Really shocking but Its truth .
The New Vodaphone HTC Magic Phone Contain Malwares in the software Inbuilt and Its stealing Personal Data of the Users.
So Beware Guys !
This is Pity Ridiculous that company is distributing malware at its userbase. Unfortunately it probably won’t be the last.
Today one of our colleagues received a brand new Vodafone HTC Magic with Google’s Android OS. “Neat” she said. Vodafone distributes this phone to its userbase in some European countries and it seems affordable as you can get it for 0€ or 1€ under certain conditions.
The interesting thing is that when she plugged the phone to her PC via USB her Panda Cloud Antivirus went off, detecting both an autorun.inf and autorun.exe as malicious. A quick look into the phone quickly revealed it was infected and spreading the infection to any and all PCs that the phone would be plugged into.
A quick analysis of the malware reveals that it is in fact a Mariposa bot client. This one, unlike the one announced last week which was run by spanish hacker group “DDP Team”, is run by some guy named “tnls” as the botnet-control mechanism shows:
00129953 |. 81F2 736C6E74 |XOR EDX,746E6C73 ; ”tnls”
The Command & Control servers which it connects to via UDP to receive instructions are:
mx5.nadnadzz2.info
mx5.channeltrb123trb.com
mx5.ka3ek2.com
Once infected you can see the malware “phoning home” to receive further instructions, probably to steal all of the user’s credentials and send them to the malware writer.
Interestingly enough, the Mariposa bot is not the only malware I found on the Vodafone HTC Magic phone. There’s also a Confiker and a Lineage password stealing malware. I wonder who’s doing QA at Vodafone and HTC these days.
Available link for download
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