Surge in mobile network infections in 2013, says report

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 08:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Alcatel-Lucent today released new data showing that security threats to mobile devices continues its rapid rise, infecting at any time more than 11.6 million devices and putting their owners at increased risk for stolen personal and financial information; bill shock resulting from pirated data usage; and extortion in exchange for device control. Meanwhile, the security threat to home networks remained constant with traditional "fixed" malware types starting to make the jump to mobile devices.

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