Mobile malware is on the rise, and so is malware in residential broadband networks. According to Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs, almost 14% of home broadband networks become infected each month. Meanwhile just 0.7% of all mobile devices are infected. The number of infected devices rose 25% last year and 20% the year before.
The group includes laptops in its definition of mobile devices, and it says the number of infected Windows devices and infected Android devices is roughly equal. Less than 1% of the infected devices were iPhones or BlackBerries.
Speaking of iPhones, Apple Pay has a new partnership with the U.S. government. iPhone users will soon be able to use their iPhones to pay for admission to national parks and other government-owned venues.
Apple Pay works by storing credit card information in the iPhone’s Passbook app, and it uses near field communication to send that information securely to NFC cash registers.
Finally today we have HetNet news from SpiderCloud Wireless. The Silicon Valley company has enhnanced its small cell solution, adding support for multiple wireless carriers through a single radio. The small cells can also be configured and maintained using a Bluetooth app.
That is your Mobile Minute.