Where Do Non-Corporate-Issued Gadgets Fit Into Network & Security Plans?
Additionally, hackers have realized that this is a big playground with no monitors, and they’re beginning to target smartphones. Spyware and snoopware, the next generation of spyware that specifically targets smartphones, let hackers track the keystrokes and Web sites that smartphones are using, and the more devious forms of this software can let them activate the phone’s microphone, camera, or video camera so that the hacker can monitor the user’s conversations or even sneak pictures or video of the user’s environment.
Worse, those same hackers could get access to databases, applications, and other stored information anywhere on the company network once a zombie smartphone is used to access the network. And even ordinary viruses, once accidentally downloaded by the smartphone or through attachments to text messages, can merrily trot from the phone to the network. “A phone is like a flash drive,” says Chris DeHerrera, mobility architect for Enterprise Mobile in Watertown, Mass. (www.enterprisemobile.com). “It can store either good information or bad, and although it doesn’t get infected itself, it provides the transmission route for the network to get infected.” (Source: Holly Dolezalek , Processor)
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