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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? The final stretch…


A March 2012 news article by The Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk) revealed that Twitter and Path acknowledged copying entire address books from their users' smartphones without the users' consent or knowledge. Add that to retailers tracking you by your mobile device, app developers collecting your personal information, your cell phone provider and their software providers collecting your call and text information, law enforcement agencies mapping where you go, and a comprehensive picture of who you are, what you do, what you own, and where you go begins to emerge.

Let's go back to the persistent cookies, both friendly and malicious. They have been busy collecting information about you while you surf the Web, Internet bank, and shop online. The bad guys who planted the malicious cookies on your machine have already sold your information, probably several times, for a small amount each time. But there is another market, a legal one, which also trades in...