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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Hackers to target mobile banking, study says

This year could see a sharp rise in hacker attacks on Internet-enabled smartphones as a number of new banking and payment initiatives enter the mobile channel, a research group warned Monday.  The Tower Group, a research and advisory company focused on the financial services industry, believes that many mobile commerce offerings now emerging from the financial services sector “lack a reasonable and justifiable focus” on mobile security.

 

More than 200 mobile phone viruses have been identified since phones have been able to support PC-like applications such as e-mail, instant messaging, and Web browsing, and the number is doubling every six months, TowerGroup said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070122/tc_infoworld/85323

Posted on 01/23
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