Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Smartphones: A Gateway For Cyber Criminals
The world is flooded by cyber crime, warned the cyber security experts who blame smartphones, the latest addiction in the tech world for this menace, reports ANI.
"This is a fully fledged computer that's sitting in your pocket," Sky news quoted Henry Harrison, from UK cyber security experts Detica, as saying.
The biggest flaw that a smartphone hold is that it's too user friendly and useful for them who trade ease for security.Smartphone collects our emails, stores up our bank details; we use Facebook and Twitter on it. They are more or less our confidante, bank vault and our guide.Wi-Fi connections are used by criminals, often giving their Wi-Fi hotspots fake names familiar to punters at cafes and in airports to yield passwords and extra data from smartphones or computers.Numerous smartphones are put up to automatically bound on to accessible Wi-Fi hotspots and start downloading emails.
As Smartphones make up to 40 percent of mobile phone sales this year, the malware developers have their focus on smartphones. Phones running on Google's Android system are the easy targets.
Catalin Cosoi from Bitdefender said, "We have investigated applications for Android devices and basically, based on our statistics, we've seen a 2,000 percent increase of malicious applications compared to the last year...Our prediction is that in the following 6 months, we will have a 6,000 percent increase in malicious applications."
Smartphones are acting like a gateway for cyber spies and cyber criminals to get into someone personal data, state and industrial secrets. Cosoi added, "Once you have a smartphone, you probably can't go back to an older version of a phone now that you have access to a computer, social media, emails, pictures and so on. You sort of get addicted, so smartphones are becoming very important."
"Sometimes you can take a malicious part from one application and insert it into another and start propagating an application on the web. So smartphones are increasing and also, it's very easy to create malicious applications for smartphones," he added.
"This is a fully fledged computer that's sitting in your pocket," Sky news quoted Henry Harrison, from UK cyber security experts Detica, as saying.
The biggest flaw that a smartphone hold is that it's too user friendly and useful for them who trade ease for security.Smartphone collects our emails, stores up our bank details; we use Facebook and Twitter on it. They are more or less our confidante, bank vault and our guide.Wi-Fi connections are used by criminals, often giving their Wi-Fi hotspots fake names familiar to punters at cafes and in airports to yield passwords and extra data from smartphones or computers.Numerous smartphones are put up to automatically bound on to accessible Wi-Fi hotspots and start downloading emails.
As Smartphones make up to 40 percent of mobile phone sales this year, the malware developers have their focus on smartphones. Phones running on Google's Android system are the easy targets.
Catalin Cosoi from Bitdefender said, "We have investigated applications for Android devices and basically, based on our statistics, we've seen a 2,000 percent increase of malicious applications compared to the last year...Our prediction is that in the following 6 months, we will have a 6,000 percent increase in malicious applications."
Smartphones are acting like a gateway for cyber spies and cyber criminals to get into someone personal data, state and industrial secrets. Cosoi added, "Once you have a smartphone, you probably can't go back to an older version of a phone now that you have access to a computer, social media, emails, pictures and so on. You sort of get addicted, so smartphones are becoming very important."
"Sometimes you can take a malicious part from one application and insert it into another and start propagating an application on the web. So smartphones are increasing and also, it's very easy to create malicious applications for smartphones," he added.
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