Cybercriminals are following innocent consumers away from email and toward more popular, smartphone-style platforms, McAfee reported Tuesday. “New mobile malware in 2010 increased by 46 percent compared with 2009,” noted McAfee spokesperson Joris Evers. In 2010, Symbian and Android platforms, in particular, were splattered by Trojans and bots. “Consumers need to realize that mobiles, whether smartphone or tablet, are mini computers,” said David Gorodyansky, CEO of AnchorFree. “This means all the vulnerabilities of a computer exist, often with a less-protected OS.”
It is no surprise to me that android has the most virus problems
Most people in the Linux community are a bit fanatical in their thinking that anything Linux based can never be infected by a virus.
Where there is money to be made hackers and virus creators will find a way and if the other side thinks it is impossible to make a virus well then so much the easier for the bad guys.
The Linux community needs to wake up and understand that the more popular a system gets the greater the chance that people will develop exploits of that system.
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Malware Is on the Move, Reports McAfee
Posted by: Mike Martin February 8, 2011 11:54 AMCybercriminals are following innocent consumers away from email and toward more popular, smartphone-style platforms, McAfee reported Tuesday. “New mobile malware in 2010 increased by 46 percent compared with 2009,” noted McAfee spokesperson Joris Evers. In 2010, Symbian and Android platforms, in particular, were splattered by Trojans and bots. “Consumers need to realize that mobiles, whether smartphone or tablet, are mini computers,” said David Gorodyansky, CEO of AnchorFree. “This means all the vulnerabilities of a computer exist, often with a less-protected OS.”
Most people in the Linux community are a bit fanatical in their thinking that anything Linux based can never be infected by a virus.
Where there is money to be made hackers and virus creators will find a way and if the other side thinks it is impossible to make a virus well then so much the easier for the bad guys.
The Linux community needs to wake up and understand that the more popular a system gets the greater the chance that people will develop exploits of that system.
I also very much agree about the fanatical Linux ostriches.
At least Linux can be secured, though, by those who take the effort to do it (unlike some other famous OSs).
The supercomputer Watson runs Linux. I wonder what will happen if it gets a virus? Will it start talking gibberish from a "migraine?"