Tailor your mobile security plan for the iPod generation

Ever since the emergence of iPod back in 2004, GFI and other experts including Gartner analysts, Ruggero Contu and John Girard have been warning that iPods are a potential danger to the corporate network.

Yet, nearly one-third of medium-sized companies remain unconcerned about leaking sensitive data through devices that are highly portable with large storage capacities, according to Osterman Research.

On 18 October 2006, it came to light that a number of infected Apple iPods have been rolled out of the manufacturing plant during the past month carrying a virus known as RavMonE.exe (also known as Win32/RJump.A, Worm.RJump, and Backdoor.Rajump amongst others).

RavMonE.exe is a worm that opens a backdoor on Windows based systems and spreads by coping itself to portable storage drives such as USB sticks, digital cameras, external hard drives and open shares. The iPod virus threat is just one example.

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