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Your Smartphone Is Safer Than Your PC — For Now
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Galen Gruman reports on the future of mobile security — one that will see a significant rise in exploits as valuable information increasingly migrates to mobile devices. To date, sandboxing and code-signing have helped make mobile OSes relatively secure, when compared with their desktop brethren. But as devices store more valuable information than email, they will become more enticing to hackers currently breaking into Windows PCs. And the biggest bulls-eye appears to be on Android, in large part because its architecture is most like that of the desktop PC but also because there are so many variants in use — too many for Google or the carriers to patch securely. And as the PDF-jailbreak vulnerability showed, sandboxing has its limits when it comes to securing the browser — the most likely point of entry for exploits not due to the rise of extensions, helper objects, and plug-ins on the mobile Web."
I have a stupid phone.
my iPod nano's never had a virus, a worm or a trojan, but a Greek dude with a bad cold did sneeze on it once.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Send it flowers or candy instead and you might get lucky...
Remember to maintain your supply of
The mistake of letting users interact with them. Users are the number one security flaw in any system.
Sure, a daemon would say that, wouldn't it?
That's what saving throws are for.
The real reason is that malware authors cannot afford Macs :)
This space for rent.