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@Kim sorry to hear that, but that's exactly the kind of form mobile malware seems to be taking. Collect small amount from a lot of accounts quickly and then close up and do it again
@Smk I guess legit in the sense that they do provide the service they said they would... but the evil ones are the ones that charge you more or do it multiple times and then spam your phonebook looking for another sucker to click the link
I was scammed by a company which started sending me messages and something I did had the effect of applying a charge to my bill for each message I received! The charges were small but I eventually noticed them. Called the vendor who recognized the culprit instantly and refunded my money.
From the talk I was at this summer a lot of them hide the process so you don't know this is happening. But other "legit" examples are those commericals like send us two names and we will send you a text back with how compatiable they are romantically
Most of the SMS scams are basically designed to get you to unknowingly forward these premium rate messages. The charges are added to your mobile bill. Meanwhile the credit is given to the company and they get it all in a month and then distribute the digital currency and move onto a new account before the bills have arrived and the user knows this happens
One thing: IBM's report talks about how malware attacks smartphones through premium SMS services and some third-party "cheat" apps. So it seems there is a move to tempt users to adopt these apps. I guess consciousness needs to be raised.
One of the things IBM X-Force suggests is to kee up with mobile and smartphone security patching. Also, though, IBM team seems to think it's vital to get control over smartphones.
So simply saying "don't use it" won't be enough. We need security solutions to address the fact that consumers will use mobile for shopping, and they will bring their own devices into the workplace.
I do have my first ever Kindle, Susan. Although I remain under the spell of Jeff B.'s salesmanship, I was really pointing out that warnings not to use mobile for shopping are futile. It's going to become mobile's main purpose after calls/messages.
@Susan: Agreed. Sometimes I actually enjoy shopping in brick and mortar space. That said, though, automating the process has its attractions, especially given lack of time and energy for "attacking" the mall.
I think enterprises need to balance the advantages of increased productivity from mobile use with the need for security and make a judgment. McAfee would say their internally held data either has probably been hacked already in any case.
I think I am past being surprised by the Pollyanna attitude to security. We're moving rapidly towards an environment where data is held by external server farms and accessed using a wide range of devices which have very open attack surfaces. Given the proven problems with locking down data held on internal, supposedly secure systems, of course we are heading for problems.
Anyway, none of this is truly surprising, is it? I think everyone foresaw that mobile would multiply the security problem once it escaped the Blackberry corral and opened itself to the WorldwideWeb. We just all went ahead anyway. Security will have to play catch-up as usual.
@Mary, I'm surprised, given that one hacker essentially destroyed a major certificate provider, that Mike has higher hopes for digital authentication than for anti-virus software.
I've seen a lot of indication that security is having to change itself from a more local internal effort to a more distrubutied effort as workers continue to scatter, but even thing as consumerization continues the enterpirse has even less control :(
I know Google is seeking to make Android more relevant to the enterprise, but that can't happen as long as these security issues are still so widespread.
Re Android, here's a link to one of several stories I've seen. There's an open door which allows apps granted access for a specific purpose to harvest just about any data on the device.
@Nicole, yes, IBM's X-Force is finding that smartphones are vulnerable not only because there are so many of them, but because they appear to be easy to breach.
@Mary, I'm not sure how behavior monitoring could be implemented. I guess it's the equivalent of banks suspending use of cards when aberrant activity is identified. Not sure how that would work for mobile devices.
I haven't heard about a blanket ban, Nicole. But someone on the board below Jart's blog indicates that a new kind of identity management is likely going to be required.
Well I guess my question is how we go about solving this problem. Are any consultants or experts recommending banning user devices from the corporate network altogether?
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