IPAD and iPhone Favorite Target of Cybercrime in 2011.

Not only was mentioned as a favorite gadget, a research report reveals IPAD and the iPhone is also a favorite target of cybercrime in 2011.

This was disclosed security firm McAfee Threat Predictions in his research project. McAfee stated in the next year, cyber attacks against the Apple platform, especially mobile devices such as iPad and the iPhone will increase.

This is because the growing popularity of these gadgets and more and more people, especially among companies that use them. If the first relatively free from the Apple platform botnet and trojan, McAfee says this kind of attack would generally happen in the next year.

Admin quoted from Cnet, on Thursday (30/12/2010), such attacks are not only targeting Apple gadgets but also other mobile platforms. The users mainly face certain attacks from the application without such supervision of the Android Market, which allows malicious applications to access user data.

Do not forget, besides that new media such as Google TV and social networks like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook are also very vulnerable. McAfee provides notes on this year began a proliferation of application-controlled botnet.

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