week 9

2013: A Perilous Year on the Internet

            John Mello’s article talks about how the world of internet isn’t getting any safer. Mello states that the internet cybercrime has increased significantly, especially last year and uses Target’s recent credit card breach as a case study. He looks at the McAfee’s threat report for the last quarter which claims that McAfee labs collect about 200 samples of malicious every minute. The last section of Mello’s article talks about that the growing security threat from mobile phone apps, and he quotes Adam Wosotowsky, McAfee messaging data architect, who claims that getting apps from official sites such as Apple and Google Play is pretty safe. I believe that it is dangerous to make this type of claim, especially when there are studies out that suggest the mobile apps are becoming very attractive targets for cybercriminal. I believe that it’s important to educate the public about the potential mobile apps cyber theft and encourage them to be extra caution.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80120.html