[pchelpers] Article:Attack of the 50-foot mobile virus risk

Don't believe the hype - show us the malware
By John Leyden


Posted in Security, 30th September 2008 16:59 GMT

Increased standardisation across mobile devices will make it easier for
miscreants to write malicious code, a Gartner analyst has warned - but
the familiar prediction overlooks a bigger threat.

The warning makes for a repeat of a long-standing anti-virus industry
prediction that has yet to come to fruition. Meanwhile, the risks posed
by sensitive data left on insecure mobile devices remains largely
ignored.

Speaking at the opening day on the Gartner IT Security Summit in London
on Monday, Gartner analyst John Girard said that increased
standardisation across smart phones and mobile devices was making life
easier for the bad guys. Advanced phones running the same OS used to
have different implementations of mobile Java or different
configurations, but Girard argued this is beginning to change, Computing
reports.

More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/30/mobile_malware_imminent/
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