Top Seven Internet Security Trends - Slide 3
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As was predicted last year, the security industry has tracked a rapid rise of malicious software (malware) for applications, with a trend towards targeting Google’s Android mobile phones. This malware has popped up both on unofficial marketplaces or even with “good” apps becoming infected and repurposed as bad ones. When malware is downloaded onto a phone, criminals can essentially take over that phone and gain access to any information that is shared on it from emails to text messages to bank login information, without the phone’s owner even knowing it.
IID (Internet Identity®), a provider of technology and services that help organizations secure their Internet presence, recently released its list of the top security trends from 2011. Some specific trends that IID saw emerge over the past year include the extended enterprise coming under assault, the emergence of dangerous mobile applications, and cyber criminals increasingly harnessing the power of social media. This slideshow highlights IID's list of the top Internet security incidents and trends from 2011 (in no particular order).
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