"Mobile Malwares: A Big Threat For Smartphone Users In 2012"

Mobile Malwares-A Big Threat For Smartphone Users

Carrying a smart cell phone is more or less like carrying a powerful handy computer into your pocket. A rapid increase in the number of phones selling everyday across the globe gave the boost to the fascinating handy gadgets and more over these handsets include not only a good camera but also they have extensive online access, qwerty keyboards, and several other typical computer functions. Although with power and expediency comes with a cost. Just like our conventional desktops and laptops these smart phones face high security threats. The irony of this advancement is that the greater the functionality it gains, the more they become vulnerable to the unavoidable threats which corrupts our laptops and desktops.

What so far, Mobile Malware has been one of the most awful nightmares of millions of people

worldwide these days. Now the year is about to get over, another more year is on its threshold. Is 2011 going to be a large piece of cake for the Mobile Malware developers? It is a big question of concern whether the mobile software developers will be able to redeem this issue to a significant degree or not. It is not really possible to predict anything based on any view because it is hard to specify the exact source of certain significant Mobile Malware.

Mobile Malware

The standard modus operandi of these malwares has been in the state of drafted applications and also the traditional email structure. Often you can even log into your email account through your desktop, and surprisingly the email that would redirect you to some external file download link! And here it comes! The next thing is your system is into the trap of a slew of viruses or the background key logger program is sending your important information to some nomad hacker.

It is known to everyone that the Mobile Malwares are not at all the treat issue for only smartphones because there are laptops, notebooks and handheld gadgets (tablets and PDAs). Notebooks are as much vulnerable as the other ones. Instead of all these treat issues smartphones are the instant way of getting in touch with the internet and also a dynamic way of being an easy target for the Mobile Malware app developers in recent times.

Microsoft by default applies a certificate system to protect the Windows Mobile API. Only the program threads with signed certificates are able to call mobile APIs. This system works good till a user is willing to add an unsigned new program. On the other hand Rogue apps work like a charm. They are uploaded in different smartphone application stores. Thousands of the users end up downloading them. Even very recently a Vietnamese hacker uploaded iTunesrelated applications and hacked a lot of bucks from several credit card numbers which were later on utilized for buying legit and costly applications.