{"id":367,"date":"2007-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/23\/hackers-to-target-mobile-banking-study-says\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:37:08","slug":"hackers-to-target-mobile-banking-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/23\/hackers-to-target-mobile-banking-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers to target mobile banking, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;lack a reasonable and justifiable focus&#8221; on mobile security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/infoworld\/20070122\/tc_infoworld\/85323<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}