Modern smartphones and tablets are so powerful, that they more closely resemble miniature PCs than the mobile phones of only a few years ago. We can send email, check our bank balance and access all our social networks using these devices, yet most people don’t seem to think they can be attacked by cyber criminals in the same way that their computers can. This is far from the truth, as we learnt from Kaspersky Labs’ Senior Security Researcher Vicente Diaz.
Malware that targets mobile phones is nothing new; proof of concept attacks were around as early as the year 2000, with a small number of Symbian threats appearing between 2004-2006, but there was very little money to be made from them. Now almost everyone owns a smartphone, there’s a much greater reward from finding ways to attack them with malware. With this in mind, it’s unsurprising that smartphone malware grew almost 65% in 2005, and is set to grow even higher by the end of the year.
See more at: http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/internet-security/1287439/smartphones-and-tablets-the-next-big-threat-to-cyber-security
Malware that targets mobile phones is nothing new; proof of concept attacks were around as early as the year 2000, with a small number of Symbian threats appearing between 2004-2006, but there was very little money to be made from them. Now almost everyone owns a smartphone, there’s a much greater reward from finding ways to attack them with malware. With this in mind, it’s unsurprising that smartphone malware grew almost 65% in 2005, and is set to grow even higher by the end of the year.
See more at: http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/internet-security/1287439/smartphones-and-tablets-the-next-big-threat-to-cyber-security
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