mobile devices

Mobile devices will become an even more attractive target for cyber criminals in 2012, according to the 2012 Emerging Cyber Threats Report, issued during this week's Georgia Tech Cyber Security Summit. "You have to do your due diligence" before downloading mobile apps, says Mustaque Ahamad (Computer Science). Source: WABE

Get ready to hear more about "search poisoning." The 2012 Emerging Cyber Threats Report, issued this week during the Georgia Tech Cyber Security Summit, identified the practice of using SEO techniques to optimize malicious links among search results as a threat to watch in the coming year. Source: ConsumerAffairs.com

Smartphones’ small screen size and abundance of loosely monitored applications make them particularly vulnerable to cyber attack, says Mustaque Ahamad (Computer Science), co-author of the 2012 Emerging Cyber Threats Report. "The resources we have on these devices are different from what you have on your desktop or laptop." Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Cyber attacks on mobile phones have mostly targeted personal information, but that's likley to change. In the 2012 Emerging Cyber Threats Report, Georgia Tech information security experts predict mobile phones increasingly will be a vector to attack networks and critical systems. Source: GovInfoSecurity.com

Compromised phones will infect the computers they plug into, much the same way malware such as Stuxnet found its way onto laptops via thumb drives, says the new 2012 Emerging Cyber Threats Report, released this week at the Georgia Tech Cyber Security Summit. Source: IT World