According to representatives of the British Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce, smartphones have become one of the most popular objects for hackers to hack. After the publication of this information, employees of Case24.com, which manufactures cases for various smartphones, decided to more accurately determine which smartphone manufacturers are interested in attackers.
Based on the study, a report was presented that states that iPhone owners are ten times more at risk of being hacked compared to owners of devices from other manufacturers. Experts came to this conclusion after analyzing the arrays of monthly requests from users of the Google search engine. The study processed various search queries from residents of the UK, one way or another related to hacking smartphones or mobile applications.
It was estimated that in one month, the British made 10 requests that in one way or another concerned the hacking of different iPhone models. This is much more than Samsung's smartphones, whose hacking methods interested users only 040 times during the reporting period. In third place are the devices of the Chinese company Huawei, whose hacking methods were of interest to residents of the UK 700 times a month. Least of all interest was shown to the devices of LG, Nokia and Sony.
The ability to hack mobile applications has also been very popular with users. It turned out that most often (12 times) the British were looking for ways to hack the Instagram app. It was followed by Snapchat and WhatsApp, which appeared in 310 and 7390 search queries, respectively. Less than 7100 times users have searched for options to hack YouTube, Twitter and Messenger. The rest of the applications included in the researchers' report were even less popular.
Source: 3dnews.ru