Video: Mobile security threats and Mac complacency

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By Maggie Holland
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Part two: Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive and founder of Kaspersky Lab, talks about the increasing security threats mobile users are facing.

Eugene Kaspersky

In part two of our interview, security guru Eugene Kaspersky talks about new and emerging uses for mobile phones (such as identity and payment solutions) will make them even more of a target for security wrong doers.

He also warns about how the Mac OS will become an increasing target for virus writers in the future - a topic also covered in this week's podcast.

Maggie Holland
Maggie Holland

Maggie has been a journalist since 1999, starting her career as an editorial assistant on then-weekly magazine Computing, before working her way up to senior reporter level. In 2006, just weeks before ITPro was launched, Maggie joined Dennis Publishing as a reporter. Having worked her way up to editor of ITPro, she was appointed group editor of CloudPro and ITPro in April 2012. She became the editorial director and took responsibility for ChannelPro, in 2016.

Her areas of particular interest, aside from cloud, include management and C-level issues, the business value of technology, green and environmental issues and careers to name but a few.