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07:17 31st May 2011
Mobile devices like the Apple's iPhone or Google's Android will be increasingly exposed to more complex and common cyber attacks, according toCon Mallon, director of regional product marketing at online protection brand, Norton.
"The mobile threat is going to start to build and morph and become more sophisticated."
This has been indicated "even in the fairly early days of 2011," with a trojan being "applied and distributed" through application stores, according to Mr Mallon.
The expert added that we should expect to see an "upswing on specific mobile threats" purely because more smartphones than PCs are now sold per quarter.
"The hackers and the cybercriminals, if they can get a return on the investment in creating malware code to graft to the mobile platform, will go after it," he explained.
His comments emerged as Juniper Networks found in a recent survey that enterprise and consumer mobile devices are exposed to a record number of security threats, including a 400 per cent increase in Android malware.
Posted by Derek Oldman
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