Posted on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Analyst: Money Will Fuel Mobile Spying Programs
WashingtonPost.com
Spying programs for mobile phones are likely to grow in sophistication and stealth as the business around selling the tools grows, according to a mobile analyst at the Black Hat conference on Friday.
Many of the spy programs on the market are powerful, but aren’t very sophisticated code, said Jarno Niemela, a senior antivirus researchers for Finnish security vendor F-Secure, which makes security products for PCs and mobile phones.
But there is increasing evidence that money from selling the tools will create a stronger incentive for more accomplished programmers to get into the game, which could make the programs harder to detect, Niemela said.
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