10/25/11

Mobile, BIOS cyberthreats on the rise - Technology - GMA News Online - Latest Philippine News

Mobile, BIOS cyberthreats on the rise - Technology - GMA News Online - Latest Philippine News: "Threats to mobile devices and infections to computers' basic input-output systems (BIOS) continued to go up in September, a computer security firm said.

In its September malware statistics report, Kaspersky Labs noted 559 of 680 new malware programs “in the wild" targeted devices using Google's Android OS.

“It was obvious that sooner or later the majority of malicious programs for mobile devices were going to make extensive use of the Internet for such things as connecting to remote servers to receive commands," said Kaspersky Lab security expert Alexander Gostev.
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