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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

Who has your data? Round 1…


Even the app stores want your data. Who knew a mobile device could make you so popular?

The truth is out there

So far, we have seen that Carrier IQ and your service provider may have copies of your call and text logs and even your text message contents. But it doesn't end there.

The Carrier IQ app is just that, an app. It has the possibility of gathering vast amounts of information about you. Because the Carrier IQ app can do it, so can other apps. Smartphones are equipped with unique device identifiers, which generally cannot be removed. This allows cell phone service providers to recognize your phone. It also allows apps and ad companies to do so.

Studies on Android apps have shown that several apps collect personal information, such as device identifier, passwords, age, gender, contact information, and location. Apps collecting this information often do so without the user's awareness or consent, and frequently transmit the information to other locations, which...