Who’s responsible for Mobile Security?

Discussing the increasing role that devices, particularly cell phones, play in hacking schemes, a recent WirelessWeek article said that when it comes to mobile security, manufacturers are doing the most, consumers are doing the least, but when something goes wrong, carriers have the most to lose.

Figures released in McAfee’s Mobile Security Report 2009 show that … manufacturers are taking measures in the areas that concern them the most. Mobile banking and payments are cited as major security concerns for 81 percent of the manufacturers surveyed, with 69 percent of manufacturers highly worried about the installation of applications and data transfers via external memory cards. Of least concern were voice and voicemail attacks.

One of the most widely used security features is encryption. Employed by handset makers and 3G network, encryption makes it extremely difficult to intercept and retrieve data.

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