McAfee releases Top Five Tips to avoid Bad Apps
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE McAfee has shared its top five tips to avoid downloading bad apps. While reported mobile malware incidents are still relatively low in number, McAfee Labs is seeing significant growth in the mobile malware threat landscape. Due to the fact that smartphones and tablets have eclipsed unit sales of desktop and laptop PCs, cybercriminals have set their sights on mobile and maliciously modified apps are becoming a more popular vector for infecting devices. According to the Gartner report, "Forecast: Mobile Application Stores, Worldwide, 2008-2015," May 18, 2011 (G00212661), 17.7 billion mobile apps are estimated to be downloaded in 2011 (a 115% increase from 2010). By 2012, mobile apps are projected to generate more than $15 billion in app store revenues from end-users alone. "Maliciously modified apps have started to become more prevalent. Based on McAfee detections, we have seen approximately 200 malicious apps versus tens of tho...