ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

(AFP) Smartphones have become a mine of personal information, holding bank data, credit card information and addresses, making them the preferred target for cyber criminals, experts warn.

"Cyber criminals go where there is value, and they have understood that the smartphone has become the preferred terminal for online shopping and payment," said Tanguy de Coatpont, head of the French branch of international anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Ransom-ware, which seizes control of computers and demands money to unblock users' data, has already started to target smartphones.

Now the devices are also being sought after as a gateway to key information about its user, experts at the phone industry's largest annual trade fair said.

 

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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/often-asked-questions-are-there-cyber-security-dangers-with-apps-and-whats-about-privacy/

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/apps-for-any-use-mostly-for-education-and-free/?tag=Mobile+Security

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/