Mobile Devices Expose Corporate Networks to Myriad Security Threats


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Mobile Devices Expose Corporate Networks to Myriad Security Threats

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Source: NetworkWorld - Posted by Bill Keys

Wireless devices that can send and receive e-mail — BlackBerries, Windows Mobile-based phones or other smart phones — are emerging as serious corporate threats because they have become so advanced and widely used, yet are so thinly secured, that cybercriminals are targeting them as a path to corporate data, say security experts and vendors

“There have been cases of viruses and other nasty things that can be done to mobile phones that have not really been serious yet, but they will be,” says David Ferris, president of Ferris Research.

Mobile messaging threats come in a few flavors, according to David Champine, senior director of product marketing with security vendor Cloudmark. One is text-messaging spam, or quick Short Message Service (SMS) messages that mobile phone users receive directing them to a Web site where the sender is selling something, or in more sinister cases to a site that captures personal or financial information. This particularly annoying form of spam has been around for a few years, but hasn't been prevalent in the United States since text messaging is not as popular here as in Europe and Asia

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Not just Windows anymore

Written by tyrone8323 on 2007-02-26 20:00:03

It's amazing how technologies evolve so fast and so do it's security exploits. Mac lovers are always saying that Windows isn't secure yet they are completely oblivious to the fact that Windows is more vulnerable to attacks since it's used more widely used around the globe and is easily available to more hackers then Apple OS X. Blackberry OS is Java based and it's security exploits will get discovered and used against corporations as Blackberry's are getting widely popular.

I think it's time for our top security foundations to start thinking about keeping wireless devices more secure as Bluetooth is available in many of the new devices and it's exploits can be used as gateway's to gain access to valuable corporate and customer information. If this trend isn't stopped or halted before it becomes widely known, it will be very tough to catch up and "try" to put road blocks in front of hackers.

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