http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=4047 By Tracy Kitten Managing Editor Bank Info Security September 13, 2011 Phishing attacks aimed at online PC users won't be the financial industry's greatest worry in the near future, says Dr. Markus Jakobsson, security expert in the field of phishing and crimeware. Malware targeting mobile devices will be. Jakobsson, who has spent the last several months analyzing the current state of current mobile security, says mobile vulnerabilities have changed quite a bit over the last 12 months, and most mobile users and carriers have no real way to protect themselves from fraudsters seeking access to financial accounts. "Until recently, the smartphone market has been rather small, but in a matter of months or at most a year, there will be more smartphones in the world than Windows machines," he says. "It goes without saying that the offenders will target mobile devices." That market explosion will lead to greater and more dynamic threats than the PC world ever faced, and mobile banking and financial services will be prime targets for fraudsters. [...] _____________________________________________________________ Register now for the #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Tue Sep 13 2011 - 07:35:59 PDT
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