IIPM R&P (You could say that India’s technological backwardness is saving her for now)

On the whole, mobile virus attacks have a potential to eat into profits of handset makers. Companies in general are risking data leakage through critical information stored on their employees’ cellphones. And individual customers either see a spike in bills, or their handsets rendered completely useless by attacks. “What will probably stimulate the mobile malware threat is an opportunity for commercial fraud,” says Tod.

In India, since the upgradation to high level phone technologies compared with developed nations like Europe and USA is still not there, the scenario is different. You could say that India’s technological backwardness is saving her for now. But, with investments in better communication technologies taken more seriously today, the domestic anti-virus industry needs to pull up its socks for a new round of hacker vs. user battle.…

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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006