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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

Speaking of the younger generation…


A US study in the spring of 2012 confirmed the continued rise in cell phone ownership among minors. The percentage of high school students with cell phones, 85 percent, is not surprising, although finding almost the same percentage of ownership (83.5 percent) for middle schoolers is. The numbers continue to surprise as we go down a few grades, with fifth graders at 39 percent, fourth graders at 26.5 percent, and third graders at 19 percent. Third graders are usually nine years old; thus the study's findings show that one in five nine year olds carries a cell phone (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57411576-93/one-fifth-of-third-graders-own-cell-phones/). This percentage will have even more meaning as we look at the corresponding risks children face due to mobile devices.

Cell phone ownership among the under-10 crowd in the UK is even higher than in the US with 33 percent owning a cell phone. One in 10 children under the age of 10 years owns an iPhone. Of...