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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

And that's only the first part…


Data thieves are not the only ones who can benefit from your information. Legitimate companies also collect and use it for their purposes, and they may not have your best interests in mind.

Hidden "features"

Antivirus and other anti-malware tools will not protect against all malware. The tools can protect you against apps designed to cause harm to your device and steal your data if the apps are recognized as malware by the antivirus vendor. However, there are also valid apps written with "hidden features". These valid apps would not be classified as malware by antivirus software. Some of the hidden features in these apps are harmless, such as the unadvertised app hidden inside the Apple software. Other apps are put there only to benefit the author and those whom the author selects.

Hidden apps may be beneficial to the device's owner, at least when installed. However, over time the functionality of a hidden app may become harmful. For example, the hidden app may...