The year 2012 is expected to be a breakthrough year for cyber attacks on smartphones.
Not only are they loaded with all sorts of personal and possibly business information a crook would like to steal, but most smartphones are also completely unprotected. And most people are not aware of the threat.
“We’ve definitely got to start to worry about security on mobile devices,” said James Lyne, an expert on mobile security at Sophos Labs, one of the giants in the data security business.
“For the last few years, it’s really been more of a hyped topic. But over 2011 we started to see the bad guys produce some nasties just like on the PC for these mobile devices. So it’s more important we’re protecting ourselves,” Lyne said.
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Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be shut down in March of 2012. Managing the site has become too stressful.
“Facebook has gotten out of control,” said Zuckerberg in a press conference outside his Palo Alto office, “and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life. I need to put an end to all the madness.”
Zuckerberg went on to explain that starting March 15th of next year, users will no longer be able to access their Facebook accounts. That gives users (and Facebook addicts) a year to adjust to life without Facebook.
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Hackers have obtained a digital certificate good for any Google website from a Dutch certificate provider, a security researcher said today.
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In one of the first cases of its kind in Britain, Glenn Steven Mangham, 25, used “considerable technical expertise” to repeatedly bypass security at the world’s dominant social network, it was claimed.
The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he “made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply” a computer program to hack into a Facebook server, Westminster magistrates’ court heard.
Police sources described the incidents as one of the first investigations into attempts to illegally access the site, which boasts more than 750 million members worldwide.
One Scotland Yard source told The Daily Telegraph that detectives were not aware of any hacking attempts “to this extent” on the site in Britain. It is understood Mangham does not have a Facebook profile.
Mangham was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit in early June on suspicion of “computer hacking offences” before being charged earlier this month.
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