The mobile worm Cabir is racing from phone to phone at the World Athletics Championships, a number of sites reported this morning. Cabir travels via Bluetooth handsets, which have a range of ten meters, but because the one circulating the games is an older variant it can only infect one phone at a time, whereas newer, more sophisticated incarnations can spread faster in less time, according to a story on the SC Magazine Web site. Airborne virus and worm attacks are likely to increase as more and more users turn to cell phones for Web browsing. If the Opera Mini is any indication, Web surfing from phones will only continue to increase. GeekCoffee says that installing the Opera Mini is as easy as visiting a link via a WAP browser. While you’re alerting your staff to the dangers of Cabir, it would be wise to also explain to them not to fall for the new fax-back phishing scam. Bob Francis, InfoWorld Security Advisor columnist, today predicted that AOL’s Hummer sweepstakes will spawn at least one spam e-mail offering a chance to win the free Hummer at AOL. Francis offered up some advice to IT and end-users alike: Don’t even open that e-mail. Reports are circulating about Windows bugs that were unleashed and are rendering Windows 2000 systems vulnerable to hacker takeover. The exploits are making their way around the Web just two days after the vulnerabilities were disclosed. Netcraft has details on the holes here. Two critical keys to stronger security are customers applying more pressure on software vendors, and the vendors themselves creating comprehensive security education for their programmers, at least according to Adam Jacobs, Oracle’s principal product manager. Jacobs delivered the remarks in a presentation at the InfraGard National Conference in Washington, D.C. Technology Industry