According to the expert of the research group Team Cymru Steve Santorelli mobile users are now very vulnerable to cyber threats. The fact that they are not anti-virus software installed on their devices and shift the responsibility on Internet service providers and software vendors.
According to the expert, the use of the Internet via mobile phones - a "time bomb", and the rapid growth of the global network through gadgets only confirms this. According to the expert, with the December 2012 to use the Internet through smartphones has 20% more people.
The expert noted that the risk for customers are not only malicious programs for mobile operating systems, but also the legitimate applications that access data stored on smartphones. Subsequently attackers easily compromise these programs and have access to relevant information.
"As criminals who are looking for a route to money, virus writers next to where the data is stored. Amount of the work that we are doing with the smartphone - email and banking - is incredible, so it attracts a threat, "- said Santorelli.
Compounding the situation is the fact that even if there was a compromise of a smartphone, the user may not even know about it.
"If your phone does not have antivirus technology, you do not really know about the virus, while it does not show itself in action. So you should regularly check the status of bank accounts and credit history, "- said the expert.
Link: http://softnewsmobile.blogspot.ru/2013/02/mobile-threats-main-trend-in-2012.html
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