Mobile attacks and phishing will certainly be more via SMS texting than anything else I feel.
Everyone reads all their texts, and folks are much more likely to follow a link within a text message than through an email message... It's an easy attack vector.... Michael P. Blanchard Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Cyber Security Services EMC ² Corporation 32 Coslin Drive Southboro, MA 01772 -----Original Message----- From: funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org] On Behalf Of Dan White Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 1:26 PM To: Nick FitzGerald Cc: funsec@linuxbox.org Subject: Re: [funsec] 2013 predictions... On 12/08/12 13:20 +1300, Nick FitzGerald wrote: >Hi all, > >I just hope that I'm not already too late to be the fiirst person to >predict that 2013 will be _the_ year of mobile malware... > > > >Regards, > >Nick FitzGerald Mobile offers homogeneous targets, but also targets which can be fixed, overnight, by vendors with deep pockets. I predict more-of-the-same for 2013, but with a more litigious slant. As attacks are ever more directed and focused in nature, users will start to view their vendors as culpable. -- Dan White _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
