23 August 2011

Mobile Phones - The Weakest Link In The Chain | #cellphone #hackers #infosec

Mobile malware is climbing alarmingly and the threat to companies increases with each day. The challenge is unlike any that IT has faced because it contains just about every threat that whole IT systems have faced concentrated in a small vulnerable shell.

There is the obvious problem of losing a phone. Unlike a laptop, it can slip down the sofa or simply be left in the pub after a bit of relaxation following a busy day at work. The average UK user does not even bother to set a PIN or password to protect their phones – devices that now have the equivalent power of desktop PCs of less than ten years ago.

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