Happy now? Mobiles, cloud, big data now ‘a growing security risk’
January 11, 2013
Grazed from The Register. Author: Editorial Staff.
Innovations in mobile and cloud computing, social technology and the use of "big data" present an emerging risk to organisations’ IT security, experts have warned. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), which is an EU advisory body, said that those technologies would increasingly provide the platform for "most of the innovation expected in the area of IT" and warned that with their emergence would come an associated increased cyber threat.
ENISA warned that the threat stemming from mobile computing comes from the fact that mobile communications take place over "poorly secured … or unsecured channels". It said that the software used for such systems were not the most "mature", and added that devices were vulnerable to being lost or stolen due to their "mobility". The very fact that they are universally popular also enhances the threat of the technology being exposed to hackers, the agency added…
The most significant threat stems from hackers inserting malicious software in website browser and other software available on mobile devices, known as ‘drive-by exploits’, ENISA said. "Drive-by downloads attacks against web browsers have become the top web threat. More specifically, attackers are moving into targeting browser plugins such as Java (Java exploits are the major cross-platform threat), Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash," it said in a new report…
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