Time to seriously PROTECT your Smartphone from Malicious Intent
By Wilson • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: UncategorizedWith the rise of 3G technology there has been an increase in the demand for smartphones. Almost 19 percent of mobile users use smartphones and around 49 percent plan to use to buy one for themselves within the next two years. This is definitely good news for smartphone manufacturers but it has a grey part to it as well. As smartphones are smart enough to carry sensitive data and participate in e-commerce, the products accordingly attract different types of security threats and phishing activities. Therefore, it is crucial to have up to date security software and anti-malware protection installed on your phone.
A number of options are available for protecting smartphones. Security vendors are improving their services every hour to ensure maximum security. Although the mobile threats are far less dangerous and widespread than PC security threats facing laptops like the Toshiba Satellite L350, they have the capacity to actually be more destructive and harmful to users. Thus the security alarm should be ON always. Different security vendors are tackling this problem in different ways. Many of them are providing a mobile security package as a part of their PC security suite or total Internet security product. These products are efficient enough to keep themselves updated about the latest environmental threats and offer both proactive as well as reactive measures.
Presently a polymorphic worm called WinCE.Pmcryptic.A is being considered as one of the most dangerous mobile worms in existence. The mess caused by this worm is far beyond anyone’s imagination and it’s spreading faster than fire. So it’s excellent if you fill up the X-Mas stockings with a smartphone security suite.
Tags for this article: smartphone, security, malware
