Could 2010 be the Year Malware Goes Mobile?

Posted by admin on 25/Jan/2010 in Security Alert Log | 0 comments

Here’s an excerpt of a nice article published on the eWeek Security Watch web site theorising that 2010 may well be the year that mobile phones are targetted by malware.

Here is a brief excerpt from the article,

Experts Preach Careful Applications Usage for Mobile Security.

This shift will force handheld users to be far more selective about which programs they choose to run on their devices, experts including ESET’s Randy Abrams have observed.

“It looks like 2010 is going to be a pivotal year for mobile malware. We may not see a lot of it, but we are seeing a robust infrastructure reaching enough maturity to support wide scale attacks,” Abrams said in a recent blog post. “A stock Android will probably be relatively safe, but the applications you can choose to put on it may make it very unsafe.”

Click here to read the full article on the eWeek Security Watch web site