Mobile Phone Spyware
With the advent of more advanced cell phones, it seems as though it is only a matter of time before we start seeing the kind of viruses and spyware creeping into the ecosystem that you have on Windows. Yet, at the same time, we haven’t really seen that kind of malware spreading on cell phones In the same way that you see it spreading elsewhere.
The biggest reason, of course, is that up until now. Software vendors had to work directly with the cell phone service providers to certify their software before it was allowed to be pushed onto phones. Also, the films themselves were very limited in their capabilities, and most of the programs were written in Java with a tight security model dictating their behavior. That is a stark contrast from the way that Windows software is developed and distributed. Read more…