It's not a trick subject at all, and I'm sure you've figured it out even when you first read it.As technologies continue to grow, offering new ways to do your job on the go; consumers are embracing the mobile products as quickly as they're being released every now and then. An easy example is smaller-sized notebooks, or known as UMPC device. Major computer manufacturers are in tight race to release their own version of UMPC, and created a new wave on how people use mobile devices for everything they usually do with their desktop computers.
Another example that closer to our world; is mobile phones we carry & use everywhere. The "convergence" device, as you might have recalled calling your own mobile phones; have long became trend of life on the same way we access computers. We tend to entrust our "convergence" device with our personal informations and data from trivial to confidential things such as music playlist, grocery list, to do list, email password, bank accounts, credit card numbers, etc.
Aside losing the mobile phone is prone both from self-accident or thievery act, we haven't faced yet (or scared yet) with mobile security concerns.
"Having saturated PCs and networks with data-stealing programs and financial scams, cybercriminals are following people as they e-mail, text message and surf the Internet from their mobile devices. So far, mobile phone users have not faced any pervasive threats "because it's still faster and easier for hackers to earn money in the PC domain," says Jan Volzke, McAfee's director of mobile security.
Cybercrooks are most likely to seek tech-gadget lovers who use cellphones to access corporate networks, or to shop and bank online. "The more sensitive data you store on that device, the more valuable it is to an attacker," says Mark Kominsky, CEO of Bluefire Security Technologies, a mobile devices security company.It's not just McAfee & Bluefire who have spoken on mobile device security concerns, other tech security companies have also see a lucrative emerging market for mobile phone security products.
Researcher IDC predicts businesses and consumers will spend $958 million by 2011, up from $214 million in 2006 spent mostly by corporations. Symantec, Kaspersky Lab, Trend Micro and others have stepped up consumer marketing of anti-virus subscriptions for mobile devices. Typical annual cost: about $30.
With the emerging of more and more cutting-edge mobile phones like Palm's Treo/Centro, RIM's BlackBerry, HTC smartphones and Apple's iPhone; mobile phones will be present everywhere in corporate's IT infrastructures. And the more popular the platform, the more it'll likely to be hijacked.
One particular serious security threat is found as a program for Windows Mobile smartphones, called InfoJack. InfoJack disabled the phone's security settings and connected it to a server in China, giving the intruder a way to install malicious programs.
Tech analyst Jack Gold, of J. Gold Associates, predicts that in the next few months, profit-minded hackers will take aim at the hottest mobile device on the market. "You're going to see a lot of malware being written for the iPhone," says Gold.How will mobile vendors are going to counter-attack those mobile security threats hanging on the horizon, the threats are unavoidable and already here to rip their platforms apart. It is imperative to keep our eyes open, or we'll be forced to live in the same condition as the fragile world of desktop computing filled with "trojan-horses" (read: malwares & viruses). And in the end, are we just have to buy extra protections for our mobile devices?
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