Mobile code increased by 250% compared to 2009

The above information has just been announced by Juniper Global Research Center (USA). This has made many people startled, especially businesses because today, mobile devices are becoming more popular and widely used in large companies.

The center has been monitoring, reacting and researching threats to mobile devices, including viruses, spyware (spyware) and other security vulnerabilities that threaten personal information as well. like enterprise data for years.

This study shows that 80% of users access the corporate network without permission or businesses do not know about it, and up to 50% of employees regularly do it every day. Meanwhile, individual users are also not better, they use smartphones to conduct banking transactions via mobile phones and to store personal information such as account numbers, banks, passwords, . causing Sensitive information can be dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands.

Compared to 2009, the number of malware (malware) in 2010 increased by 250%. If most of the communication on the computer is protected, users will forget it on smartphones. Therefore, they are more vulnerable to attack, even with the most elementary exploiting errors.

Besides, the success of the app store has made them increasingly focused on smartphone manufacturers and the number of applications is increasingly rich. However, the ability to infect malicious code of applications on the online application store is also not small. According to research data, for every 20 applications in the Android app store, there is one application that requires making a call without users knowing.

Meanwhile, Fortune 15 said about 5% of mobile devices (equivalent to 250,000 devices) are infected with malicious code. 20% of teens admit that they have sent nude or semi-nude photos or videos from mobile devices to others, 61% of maliciously infected smartphones are spyware capable of tracking information from human devices Using, 17% of malware infections are reported as Trojan messages, used to steal money from cardholders' accounts.

This has raised alarm bells for the security of mobile devices, especially today's smartphones.