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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

I've Got 99 Problems and Quite a Few of Them Are Android | Fortinet Blog

Until relatively recently, mobile malware wasn't that different from early PC malware - It was annoying, it probably invaded your privacy, and it took a toll on system resources but it wasn't especially dangerous or costly in the way that modern weaponized malware used to attack PCs, servers, and point-of-sale systems was. And just as early malware primarily targeted a single OS (Windows), mobile malware remains almost exclusively a problem for Android. However, it appears that Stagefright has served as something of a wakeup call for the industry - Android devices are more vulnerable than they should be and the mobile threat landscape just got a lot more worrisome.



I've Got 99 Problems and Quite a Few of Them Are Android | Fortinet Blog

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