Smartphones and PDAS – Threats
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
A simple way to consider threats to handheld devices is to compare them with those for desktop computers, which are more familiar to everyone and documented elsewhere. Essentially, the threat profile for handheld devices is a superset of the profile for desktop computers.
The additional threats for cellular handheld devices stem mainly from two sources:
- Their size and portability
- Their available wireless interfaces and associated services.
Size and portability can result in the loss [..]