With Android system-based mobile phones coming under hacker attacks increasingly, users must use quality security apps to ward off risks, cybersecurity experts said. Li Tiejun, a security engineer at Beijing-based Cheetah Mobile Inc, said, In developed countries, Google Play commands a dominant position as a trustworthy marketplace for apps that help keep users' systems safe. However, China's Android app stores are dominated by different local players and these third-party marketplaces are often riddled with malicious software. Thus, compared with Android users in developed countries, Chinese users have a greater need for security apps, he said. Li said as iPhone users can download apps from only Apple Inc's official App Store, there is not much room for viruses to infect Apple devices, obviating the need for security apps in them. A report released in May by the Internet Society of China and the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China revealed that among a total of over 2 million mobile internet malicious programs spotted in 2016, 99.9 percent targeted Android devices. Another report published in March by internet research firm iiMedia Research showed that China had 539 million security app users by the fourth quarter last year. According to the report, 97.3 percent of surveyed mobile users said they were concerned about their mobile phone security. ChengXiao, 27, an architect based in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, owns an Android-based made-in-China smartphone. Cheng once used a wide range of third-party security apps, but now he uses only built-in security app offered by the manufacturer. When I began to use the Android-based mobile phone, I was really concerned about the security. Then I found the risks are usually from the installation software introduced by some downloaded apps, and basically what I need to do is recognize secure apps and download them from trustworthy channels. Li said in order to have better protection over the mobile phones, security apps will often ask for a lot of permissions and some even require root permissions to have access to the entire operating system. Root access will bring security risks. I suggest people should not offer the root permission. If users download knockoff apps, the root permission will allow the malware to have access to all personal information on the smartphones. According to app tracker Analysys Qianfan, Tencent Mobile Manager, from the company of the same name, has become the most popular security app on the market with 175 million active users in July this year, taking a market share of 48.47 percent. And 360 Mobile Security by technology major Qihoo 360 Technology Cois the second most popular security app being run with a 40.19 percent share, with Baidu's Mobile Guard in third slot with 43.62 million active users in July, grasping a market share of 12.07 percent. Gong Wei, chief security officer of Shanghai Lantern Network Technology, a free Wi-Fi access provider, said currently Android users still need to install security apps, and in the future the situation will gradually change. As time changes, users will be wary of offering permissions for security apps. I also believe phone manufacturers will gradually improve their products to offer a safer environment, Gong said. printable wristbandscustomise fidget spinnerblack rubber wristbandsmake your own bracelet cheaphow to make rubber bracelets24hourwristbands
Keeping economic field clean crucial for order, development, expert says Party discipline departments will emphasize investigations of corrupt officials in the field of finance in a bid to safeguard the healthy development of China's economy, according to a senior anti-graft researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In the past five years, the anti-graft campaign in the financial field has made great progress and has developed in both depth and breadth, Jiang Laiyong, a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Anti-Corruption Research Center, said on Thursday, following a meeting on Tuesday of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission. The commissioners discussed solutions to the problem of graft. "Graft can occur easily in the economic system because of the large flow of capital," Jiang said. "The anti-corruption drive in the economic field has played an essential role in safeguarding financial order and is conducive to the steady recovery and healthy development of China's economy." According to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the country's top anti-graft watchdog, 54 officials in Party organizations, governmental authorities, State-owned companies and the financial sector, had been placed under investigation between the 18th CPC National Congress in late 2012 and the end of May this year. Of the 54 investigated, seven were directly under the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, mostly at the ministerial or provincial level; 10 were senior directors at State-owned companies or in the financial sector; and another 37 were at bureau level or department chief level in the provinces, according to the CCDI. Five of the 54 came from the insurance system and five were from securities institutions. In total, there were 21 from the banking sector and 23 from the investment field. On Tuesday, China named new top officials to lead anti-corruption agencies under the country's banking and insurance regulators. Lin Guoyao, a former municipal official in Fujian province, was appointed as the new chief of the Party disciplinary commission of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission. Li Xinran, 45, a former disciplinary officer in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, and a senior anti-graft official in the CCDI, was named chief of the Party disciplinary commission under the China Banking Regulatory Commission. In September, Xiang Junbo, former chairman of the insurance regulator, was placed under investigation on suspicion of taking bribes, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate. Xiang has been placed under coercive measures as further investigation continues. In early September, Xiang was expelled from the CPC and dismissed from public office, the CCDI said. Members of the insurance commission said at the Tuesday meeting that they will draw lessons from Xiang's case and remove the cancer of corruption through ideology and working style. It said it will place obedience to Party discipline as a top priority and build a clean government. Moreover, they said they will step up supervision of sensitive positions, take steps to prevent similar cases in the future and impose severe punishments on those who use their positions improperly. Ren Jianming, a professor at Beihang University who studies corruption, said the financial sector is a special field that has wide-ranging influence on China's economic development, and so it's prudent to focus anti-corruption efforts there. According to lawyer Li Wei of the Beijing Lawyers Association, "Anti-graft departments at every level should further research the tendencies and characteristics of corruption touching the economic system, and improve mechanisms to close loopholes and enhance supervision to greatly reduce such crimes."
