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Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices

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Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices

Overview of this book

The threat of hacking may be the most damaging on the internet. Mobile technology is changing the way we live, work, and play, but it can leave your personal information dangerously exposed. Your online safety is at risk and the threat of information being stolen from your device is at an all- time high. Your identity is yours, yet it can be compromised if you don't manage your phone or mobile device correctly. Gain the power to manage all your mobile devices safely. With the help of this guide you can ensure that your data and that of your family is safe. The threat to your mobile security is growing on a daily basis and this guide may just be the help you need. Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices will teach you how to recognize, protect against, and recover from hacking attempts and outline the clear and present threats to your online identity posed by the use of a mobile device. In this guide you will discover just how vulnerable unsecured devices can be, and explore effective methods of mobile device management and identity protection to ensure your data's security. There will be special sections detailing extra precautions to ensure the safety of family members and how to secure your device for use at work.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Tips to Help You Protect Your Mobile Device
The History of Social Networking, the Internet, and Smartphones
Index

Social engineering


For many attacks to exist, the victim is required to disclose personal information in some way; this is known as social engineering. Hackers are everywhere and they never sleep, whether it might be an SMS text message with an evil intention or a phishing e-mail that is watching every step of yours on your mobile devices.

Whether you're an IT manager protecting employees and corporate systems or you're simply trying to keep your own personal data safe, these threats—some rapidly growing, others still emerging—pose a potential risk.

A good source for a definition of social engineering is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security).

Social engineering is committing an act of manipulating people into executing actions or disclosing confidential information, such as an ID and password or bank account, credit card, or social security number. There are two forms of social engineering: one is phishing and the other is spear phishing, where persons represent themselves...