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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

The boom in baby boomers


Age has a funny way of changing bodies. The bones creak, the hearing starts to fail, the eyes lose some of their ability to focus, and the memory plays tricks by hiding, somewhere in the recesses of our minds, those things we have always known. We seek ways to compensate for these changes, such as pain medicines and hearing aids. Mobile devices can also provide compensation through built-in features that may not have been designed for that purpose, but can nevertheless prove helpful.

For example, many smartphones and tablets today allow you to expand the screen, thus increasing the size of the font and items displayed. This can be very helpful for eyes struggling to read normal-sized font. The devices also have an ever-expanding memory available for the user to save important information such as names, phone numbers, and appointments.

As more and more people reach the age 50 years and older, manufacturers of many types of products are finding it beneficial to target...