January 4, 2010
Adobe predicted as top 2010 hacker target
ZD Net
John Leyden shares some predictions from McAfee about security risks for this year.
“Adobe will overtake Microsoft as the primary target for hackers and virus writers in 2010, net-security firm McAfee predicts. Attacks targeting vulnerabilities in Acrobat Reader and Flash are already commonplace, driven in part by that software’s widespread use. The often-tricky update process and lack of user awareness that apps as well as browsers and Windows need updating further compounds the problem of PDF-based malware – which McAfee reckons will only increase (this) year.”
Is Microsoft (slowly) picking up the pace with Windows Mobile?
ZD Net
Mary Jo Foley writes why Microsoft may be gaining more traction in the mobile space.
“There have been sightings of Windows Mobile 6.5.1 and 6.5.3 builds since Microsoft and its phone partners began rolling out the first WinMo 6.5 phones in October, but the Softies have been unwilling to comment officially on these builds. There also has been talk that Microsoft is planning to deliver a version of Windows Mobile prior to 7.0 that would add full support for capacitive screen phones, but, again, no company officials have confirmed this publicly..”
SOA boosts billing creativity in the mobile world
ZD Net
Joe McKendrick writes about the mobile services market.
“With mobile services booming across the globe, especially in fast-growing markets in India and China, telecom providers are scrambling to find new ways to bundle service packages that will keep pace with customer demand. As Rich Karpinski (of Telephony Online) puts it: “deployments are being enabled by new Web 2.0 and service oriented architecture (SOA)-driven approaches and on cheaper, more powerful general purpose hardware that makes rolling out new billing and charging overlay schemes – as opposed to yesterday’s monolithic billing systems – easier and cheaper than ever.”.”