iPads, iPhones and Android smartphones will be among the major targets for cybercriminals in the coming year, McAfee has warned. That’s because the consumerization of technology is leaving enterprise IT unprepared for the onslaught of personal devices in the corporate environment. Expect cybercriminals to set up botnets of Apple devices and to introduce Trojans for Apple devices, McAfee Labs warned. Mobile devices, in particular the iPad and iPhone, are catching on in the enterprise because they offer speed of access and cut costs.
Basically Apple worshipers will be drowning in their own, smug, stupidity. And at the same time, Apple took advantage of these people by feeding them lies about how apple software was just better, and it "just works" and won't get viruses etc etc. They've been warned, over and over, that Apple was no better at fending off malware, cyber attacks, trojans etc than anyone else. But they wouldn't listen. The only reason they were safe is a term known as "security though obscurity". Malware writers don't waste time on obscure lesser known platforms, but write for the biggest target. So Apple was ignored as a target, but their popularity has in part grown due to this...
And as it has grown in popularity, one of the very reasons people bought apple disappears and short circuits itself as the devices become more and more at risk. It makes sense. On desktops, windows was the main operating system and the main target. But on mobile, due mostly to uninformed, apple worshiping, teen-bots, apple has the most platforms and is becoming a big target. The other main reasons for buying apple products was typically social status among teens and fashion. Hey, you're 19, and 3 of your friends have iphones and you don't. Not cool. So you need one of those shiny things to show you too are cool. Older adults know better and don't mind using what works, but teens and young 20something are trapped into a fad for the most part...
So we now have a population with tons of basically, poorly protected mobile devices. The hackers will start with the most common one first, Apple, and then proceed through the list of Android phones. Apple will likely try to fend them off for a while, only to end up failing in a miserable, long list of security patches and updates over the next few years. What also is sickening is the smugness Apple users have with a high snob factor. Notice how they hand out ipads to Mercedes employees. Notice Mercedes is a typical car that you'd expect a snob to own. Also notice they are issued to medical students. Again, the snob factor continues. Next is lawyers, lol. I'm right! There is nothing worse than seeing a misinformed, 20 year old med student, thinking he's all that, and opening his stupid iphone or ipad thinking Apple is the epitome of human aspirations, yet he's so ignorant he has no idea of how much he has to grow up.
In the future, the devices will probably mostly be ok for those who do the patches, and will get the treatment you'd pretty much expect for windows devices etc, except that Apple is behind Microsoft in security experience. Actually this is why Apple has recently hired security experts from Microsoft to help them. Yep, it's true, look it up. It is..
However, mostly the Apple users who are in continual denial will think their apple device is still best against malware, but fact is it won't be. Instead it will be most targeted because ipad and iphone are the most produced mobile devices. HEY! Maybe Microsoft can take a cue from Apple and learn how to use the same marketing to claim they are secure (when their phone is just obscure, lol). They could hire a Justin Long-like guy for their commercials who will claim that Microsoft has the lowest incidence of malware on their mobile phones since all the malware writers will simply target the more popular iphones. Brilliant!
But seriously, over the next few years, hopefully there will be some that will learn a long and hard lesson that Apple had just taken advantage by fooling them into thinking they were so much more secure when they are not. OR, maybe we'll all get lucky and the malware writers will just quit their hobby (yeah right). As history continues to repeat itself, we will just end up with all these competing venders of mobile devices, with fanboys fighting on all sides about which is best... Blah! What a headache!
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Report: Mobile Malware Will Clobber Enterprise Security in 2011
Posted by: Richard Adhikari December 28, 2010 02:36 PMiPads, iPhones and Android smartphones will be among the major targets for cybercriminals in the coming year, McAfee has warned. That’s because the consumerization of technology is leaving enterprise IT unprepared for the onslaught of personal devices in the corporate environment. Expect cybercriminals to set up botnets of Apple devices and to introduce Trojans for Apple devices, McAfee Labs warned. Mobile devices, in particular the iPad and iPhone, are catching on in the enterprise because they offer speed of access and cut costs.
And as it has grown in popularity, one of the very reasons people bought apple disappears and short circuits itself as the devices become more and more at risk. It makes sense. On desktops, windows was the main operating system and the main target. But on mobile, due mostly to uninformed, apple worshiping, teen-bots, apple has the most platforms and is becoming a big target. The other main reasons for buying apple products was typically social status among teens and fashion. Hey, you're 19, and 3 of your friends have iphones and you don't. Not cool. So you need one of those shiny things to show you too are cool. Older adults know better and don't mind using what works, but teens and young 20something are trapped into a fad for the most part...
So we now have a population with tons of basically, poorly protected mobile devices. The hackers will start with the most common one first, Apple, and then proceed through the list of Android phones. Apple will likely try to fend them off for a while, only to end up failing in a miserable, long list of security patches and updates over the next few years. What also is sickening is the smugness Apple users have with a high snob factor. Notice how they hand out ipads to Mercedes employees. Notice Mercedes is a typical car that you'd expect a snob to own. Also notice they are issued to medical students. Again, the snob factor continues. Next is lawyers, lol. I'm right! There is nothing worse than seeing a misinformed, 20 year old med student, thinking he's all that, and opening his stupid iphone or ipad thinking Apple is the epitome of human aspirations, yet he's so ignorant he has no idea of how much he has to grow up.
In the future, the devices will probably mostly be ok for those who do the patches, and will get the treatment you'd pretty much expect for windows devices etc, except that Apple is behind Microsoft in security experience. Actually this is why Apple has recently hired security experts from Microsoft to help them. Yep, it's true, look it up. It is..
However, mostly the Apple users who are in continual denial will think their apple device is still best against malware, but fact is it won't be. Instead it will be most targeted because ipad and iphone are the most produced mobile devices. HEY! Maybe Microsoft can take a cue from Apple and learn how to use the same marketing to claim they are secure (when their phone is just obscure, lol). They could hire a Justin Long-like guy for their commercials who will claim that Microsoft has the lowest incidence of malware on their mobile phones since all the malware writers will simply target the more popular iphones. Brilliant!
But seriously, over the next few years, hopefully there will be some that will learn a long and hard lesson that Apple had just taken advantage by fooling them into thinking they were so much more secure when they are not. OR, maybe we'll all get lucky and the malware writers will just quit their hobby (yeah right). As history continues to repeat itself, we will just end up with all these competing venders of mobile devices, with fanboys fighting on all sides about which is best... Blah! What a headache!