Showing posts with label mobile malware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mobile malware. Show all posts

Thursday, March 6, 2014

[infosecurity-magazine] Malvertising Overtakes Porn as Top Mobile Malware Threat

As the adoption of mobile devices continues to grow rapidly and businesses increasingly provide on-the-go access to corporate assets, the mobile malware landscape is evolving to take advantage of mainstream user behavior. In a sign of the times, web ads directing users to malicious sites have eclipsed pornography as the leading source of mobile malware encounters.

Monday, March 3, 2014

[infosecurity-magazine] Kaspersky Launches Anti-phishing App for Windows Phone

Android may grab all of the mobile malware headlines, but that’s not to say that other mobile platforms aren’t at risk as well. In fact, mobile security awareness by consumers and businesses tends to focus on the threats that stem from malicious, device-specific apps, downloaded from an app store. But the full security picture is broader than that.