Cyber Crime 3.0: Risks Multiply With Mobile, Cloud Computing
October 29, 2012
Grazed from WorldCrunch. Author: Daniel Bastien.
The new tablets and smartphones have blurred the boundaries between businesses and their employees, partners and customers. The danger of computer piracy has never been so great. The threat is invisible but incessant, as the recent large-scale attack on British bank HSBC shows. In information technology, we live in a time of fantastic new breakthroughs, but it is also a time of cold sweats for businesses. Their fears are well founded.
During a recent Paris workshop on "Security: Info Systems and the Challenge of Mobility," a young research engineer calmly took control over another person’s iPad from his own laptop via Wi-Fi. To make his demonstration more spectacular, he even made the microphone work remotely. To the mesmerized audience, it looked like a spy movie…
"Getting into an iPad is simple," he said, even though Apple’s iPad has the reputation of being extremely safe from attack. The next day, his deed was no longer possible: Apple had updated its operating system to version 6. "But for how long?" wondered one technician, maliciously. Audience members were imagining how many "experts" were already tracking down the flaws in the new system. "The pirates go faster than we do," admits Yves Le Floch, director of development at Sogeti Security Global Line…
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