Your Smartphone Is Safer Than Your PC — For Now 125
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."
Irrelevant to me (Score:5, Funny)
I have a stupid phone.
Re:This is why I prefer my BB (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Example: iPhone (Score:2, Funny)
Send it flowers or candy instead and you might get lucky...
Re:Android less secure? (Score:3, Funny)
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?
Re:Irrelevant to me (Score:2, Funny)
Give me your phone and an axe, and I'll show you. :-)
Re:Irrelevant to me (Score:4, Funny)
Your bank account is 42910-44937
You really shouldn't like to your girlfriend like that
And call your mother more often.
-The NSA
Re:Irrelevant to me (Score:1, Funny)
Surveillance flatters me. My narcissism knows no bounds.
Re:PDF (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And the first ones out of the gate will be easy (Score:5, Funny)
The real reason is that malware authors cannot afford Macs :)