Hackers on the move

1 June 2005

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Information Professional

Vol. 2 (3) , 39-43
https://doi.org/10.1049/inp:20050307

Abstract

The author looks at the way attacks on mobile devices are no longer just to spy on celebrities. Celebrities are no longer the only people to find out what goes wrong when a handset is hacked - businesses are now having to deal with the consequences of their employees' phones and PDAs falling victim. Within the virtual private network (VPN) community, a technological war has been running whether the established IPSec or the browser-based SSL protocol represents the best way forward for security infrastructure. One of the arguments made in favour of SSL is that it has greater granularity and therefore provides more of the authentication and authorization elements a VPN is likely to need when thousands of wireless devices connect to it.

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