Malware for smartphones up 46%

Zdnet just reported on a study that showed malware targeting smartphones is up 46% this year over previous years. According to the report run by McAfee, Symbian remains the most targeted mobile platform, but vulnerabilities are also targeted in the Android and Apple IOS.

This new report is a bit of concern given the other news this week on organizations having more of an issue with smartphone loss than with smartphone malware. With malware up, the prudent IT administrator would make sure they deal with both smartphone loss (using policy and other tools), as well as malware (using secure web proxies and gateways).