PCCare247 ramps its Security Support Portfolio for 2012

As the year 2011 bids us farewell and 2012 begins, security support also ends finding itself at a tether’s end with the dawn of the New Year. And if the word of the security analysts is to be taken seriously this year will bring forth with itself a whole new range of threats and perils. But you need not worry for PCCare247 – the leading online entity in the world of Computer Support and PC Security is always ready to serve to all your whims and fancies.

PCCare247 knows it best:

Professionals belonging to the world of IT support have forecasted scary things going bump in the night would end up affecting computer systems in reality; only to get worse in the year 2012. So, from this point onwards we would ask you to take stock of security preparations and at the same time get a good knowledge of oncoming threats.
Looming threats for the coming year:

At PCCare247 after a lot of stringent analysis and due deliberation, we have identified threats for the coming year which intend to spoil your party. Information which we in our hearts do believe would enable you to prepare better.
• Increase in Malicious Android apps:

In the PC Support industry, Android is often referred to as the Microsoft of the mobile platform. With the OS dominating more than 50 percent of the smart phone market, it is but obvious the most attractive platform for scammers to target. This category in general is highly problematic because mobile developers lack the have experience of creating secure software and applications. So keep your eye on this space.

• Utilities will get hacked more often:

PCCare247 and its help team predicts with systems used in utilities and other critical infrastructure environments being increasingly connected to the Internet, it shouldn’t come as a surprise hackers will leave no stone unturned in causing extensive damage to environment and people.

• People will over-share despite privacy ramifications:

This next prediction from the IT help industry is a no-brainer, but it touches so many lives that to ignore it would be simply silly. And in this case Social media provides a way for us to share every aspect of our life with people, prompting us to accept the strangest of friend requests and seeking more followers while bombarding them with them the most intricate details than they really need to know.

• Hacktivists will form a 99 Percent Party:

There is really no doubt that 2011 would be called the Year of the Hackers. The Anonymous movement and its product notably the LulzSec, gained fame and notoriety for its denial-of-service attacks and data breaches on a host of targets.