Smartphones, Hackers’ Main Target
Software security expert warned that currently, hacker attacks for Smartphones are being launched. “Smartphones are private goods in which all believers to store data in it. This is a potential target for hackers,” said Founder and CEO of Lookout Mobile Security John Hering, as quoted by the Straits Times, Saturday (31/07/2010).
According to Hering, other than trust the smartphone as critical data storage, users will also no longer have to download the suspicion of foreign applications into it. It is increasingly easier hacker to infiltrate.
“The device used is not just smartphones but mobile PC that is used to access such an important account of mobile banking or online trading service. These data are interesting for ‘transported’ by a hacker,” said Hering.
Mobile phone users are rarely far away from smartphones because the data consist of a number of contacts, information, internet, banking, shopping, navigation and others, which are protected only by password.
“All of smartphone users would prefer to download a general application and never think about security,” said Hering.
Lookout itself concluded that this data is based on studies done to your smartphone applications 300 000. According to them, most applications are often dig out more information than is needed.