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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

Toby's story


Toby travels weekly for work. He flies to distant locations, conducts his business, and often returns home for the weekend. Occasionally, he might even be required to stay for extended time periods without returning home. To conduct company business, Toby relies on a number of vital devices: his laptop, a company-based server, his smartphone, and his personal tablet. Each device is useful for completing specific tasks. On his laptop, for example, he completes the most complex tasks, such as creating or modifying company documents. Toby uses his home-based server to run power-hungry applications, which his laptop is incapable of running. Toby's tablet is useful as a way of bringing up documents for easy perusal and sharing; Toby might, for instance, bring up an attachment from an e-mail and hand the tablet to a colleague for consideration.

Toby's smartphone may be his most important device. In the modern mobile world, Toby uses his smartphone for e-mail, texting, chatting, updating...