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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

Colliding generations


We've seen it coming, the workplace collision of two generations with very different communication skills. We are already working on the cleanup, but probably missed the moment of impact. Can you recall when you first realized that the new college hire in your meeting was responding in a way foreign to the experienced staff? Perhaps you couldn't quite put your finger on what was different, or maybe you noticed the tempo was a bit off, a bit faster than usual. Maybe you noticed that the new college hire reacted to levels of management differently, or paid no attention to the hierarchy that is long revered as an integral part of the organization.

You may be asking yourself, "What does this have to do with the future of technology and protecting myself?" The answer is, "A lot".

People growing up in the second decade of the 2000s communicate electronically far more than only one generation prior (http://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/books/educating-net-generation...