SmartPhone App Security Advice
Smartphones really are a fraudster’s paradise, there are so many opportunities for fraudsters to monetise from them. From Rogue Malicious Apps sending premium rate text messages costing up to £6 a text, to stealing the personal information and passwords held on them. And there are even further fraud opportunities with smarphones being increasingly used for making Payments and with Online Banking. These factors together with a general smartphone user security naivety, are a major incentive for the bad guys to target these little handheld cash cows. So it is no surprise cyber attacks targeting smartphones are rapidly increasing in the UK, "800% increase in cyber attacks on smartphones" (Nov 11) http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/11/07/800-increase-in-cyber-attacks-on-smartphones-115875-23543307/ . In this post we will look at how to go about protecting against one of the most commonly successful attacks a...