Android and Facebook attract more malware attacks

On 7/17/2011 5:30 AM, Alexandrovitch Kudiroyaravtsevgovoi wrote:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jacks-...-10022271/

Android smartphones and Facebook are attracting more attention from
malware writers, according to the AVG Community Powered Threat Report Q1
2011, which is a sort of "online neighborhood watch". In the PC market,
there has been "an explosion in Blackhole Exploit Kits", which are
mainly used to attack sercurity flaws in Oracle's Java and Adobe Reader.

<copied out of that article>

"Smart Phone and Android in particular, pose a great risk for users,
since mobile devices are constantly connected and substantially less
protected than a personal computer as users shrug off mobile security
solutions and carelessly broadcast financial, account and other personal
data such as their exact location while on the go. Smart Phones and
Tablets are typically not equipped with the same security measures as PC
& laptops."

<end copy>

A great deal of these Android users are just flat-out unaware and
ignorant about this. And more than a great deal of users don't even know
it is Swiss cheese Linux that is exposing them to the serious threat.