| Security continues to remain an area of concern.
With Internet crime becoming big business for the attackers, online security
is a pressing concern. “A single piece of malware can attack in six
different countries in various forms. Embedded systems are vulnerable to
attacks,” says Siilasmaa.
Mikko Hypponen, CRO, F-Secure said, “40 new viruses
emerge every day. One change that we have seen is that we don’t get
to see more viruses, network worms and e-mail worms today. Now it’s
spam, Trojans and backdoor directed attacks. The purpose of attacks is
changing. It was for fun earlier but now it is done with a financial motive.”
Security companies are coming up with solutions that
detect threats and clean them before attacks takes place.
Bots are a growing problem. Some of the latest bots identified
by F-Secure are Rbot, Sbot, SDbot, Rxbot, Sicklebot, Breplibot and Bagle
botnet. These target mobile platforms such as Palm, Linux and Symbian.
F-Secure has found Symbian Series 60 phones as the largest targeted platform
by number of identified threats.
Hypponen added, “Mobile viruses spread via Bluetooth,
MMS, Web downloads and Memory cards. If you download a virus by mistake
your device is attacked and becomes useless.”
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