Mobile devices have already been able to press the desktop and continue to gain market because they provide excellent flexibility and extensibility of the working environment, have enhanced capabilities for working with applications, social networking, etc. But, like any other, mobile technologies have their own shortcomings - for example, they are vulnerable to malware and hackers.
Today, attacks on the Android operating system are considered among cybercriminals very lucrative form of business. This is not surprising, given that the OS has taken now the market leader: according to research firm Gartner, the market share of the Android OS increased from 46.5% in 2011 to 64.1% in the second quarter of 2012 is almost four times greater than that of the OS used by Apple iPhone, whose share was 18.8%, and 23.7 times higher than the current market share of Windows Phone (2,7%).
