Well that decides it, Apple are King with mobile devices too. Microsoft and Android have blown it, their devices arent safe !
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Mobile malware: It's bad now, but will be worse in 2013
John P. Mello Jr. @jpmello Dec 15, 2012 10:57 AM print
If you're a user of Google's mobile operating system Android and concerned about your smartphone's security, expect to worry more in the coming months.
"[W]e see as the main trend for 2013 an exponential growth of mobile malware," cyber security software maker Eset predicts this week in its 2013 trends report [PDF].
Driving the interest of cybercriminals in the mobile market, Eset says, is the rapid adoption of smartphones, particularly those running Android, and the increased use of the devices for monetary transactions.
The volume of malware designed for mobile devices is a direct response to the speed at which the technology is being adopted, according to Eset's report. "If the market grows and technology is enhanced, then as long as users who use these devices to store an increasing amount of sensitive information do not adopt the necessary measures, it is logical to expect cybercriminals to create computer threats to profit from this situation."
Eset researchers also observe, "There is a direct parallel here to what has happened with personal computers, but at a much slower pace over a much longer period."
The report notes that Android now has more than 64 percent of the smartphone market, compared to 43 percent in 2011. "As Android's market share rises and people use it more and more to store personal and corporate information, or for online banking or related services, cyber criminals will develop more malware to steal information, thus gaining illicit revenue."
The researchers predict that next year, 530 million people will access banking services from their smartphones; it's a 76 percent jump from 2011, when only 300 million people banked on their mobile phones. Favorite malware methods
Eset notes that Android malware typically contains one of three malicious payloads. A large number of malware programs (40 percent) clandestinely subscribed their victims to premium SMS services. About a third (32 percent) of bad apps turned the devices they infect into zombies, which can be controlled by an ether thief. More than a quarter (28 percent) of malicious apps steal information from a phone.
Spreading pernicious payloads through infected websites will also continue to grow in 2013, Eset forecasts.
A factor contributing to increased interest in poisoned websites to spread malware has been the decline of "thumb" flash drives as popular infection vehicles for cybercriminals.
The introduction of the first commercial version of Windows XP in 2001 and the massive uptake of removable storage devices marked the beginning of the era of worms that spread through those media by exploiting a Windows XP design vulnerability called Autorun, the report explained.
"Given that this problem was solved in 2009 and that users have migrated towards new versions of Microsoft Windows, the number of malicious programs still using this technique has diminished in the past few years," Eset notes.
"Though there is no shortage of malware that includes it on the off chance of finding an unpatched system," it adds.
Eset outlined in its report how Web miscreants proliferate their malicious wares through infected websites: First, an existing vulnerability is exploited in a web server and malicious code is injected into the site. Then, targets are steered to the infected site through hyperlinks sent to a list of users through email, social networks, or any other means. When the target visits the site, the malware is downloaded to their computer or smartphone, where it performs its pernicious actions.
According to Eset's report, "Malware targeting Android will not only keep on rising at a considerable rate, but also will continue to evolve until they are very similar in capability to their peers in the world of more traditional computers."
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Yeah. They blew it, by having something like 70-80% of the smart phone market.
Idiot.
Go ahead and buy an iphone and pay double for the same android thing.
stinkbug omosessuale Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments. Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck! See here Property will be 50-70% off by 2016.
Apple will go back to being the pissy company it was when Microsoft were kings.
stinkbug omosessuale Frank Castle is a liar and a criminal. He will often deliberately take people out of context and use straw man arguments. Frank finally and unintentionally gives it up and admits he got where he is, primarily via dumb luck! See here Property will be 50-70% off by 2016.
Apple will go back to being the pissy company it was when Microsoft were kings.
Bullshit. As someone much smarter than you said:
"There are only three meaningful things you can do with a computer with specs like this: development, design, or gaming. And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things. Perhaps this is a vanity product for the wealthy. But wealthy people are going to just surf the web on an iPad." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5259365
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