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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

Good idea, mixed results


Mobile devices are a good idea. They allow us to live untethered to hardwired computers and telephones while remaining in contact with people and information. They allow us to have a pipeline to the world no matter where we are. However, they also allow the world to have a pipeline to us, often without our permission or even knowledge.

Reach out and touch

In a Bell System telephone commercial released in 1979, people were encouraged to "reach out and touch someone". The commercial's intent was to encourage people to spend more time talking to others in distant locations. The creators of that message never intended the action to be harmful, but times have changed and phones, as well as other communications devices, have become a source of potential harm even as they've grown in functionality and use.

Today's devices can function as phones, address books, cameras, Internet browsers, alarm clocks, gaming consoles, personal organizers, libraries, jukeboxes, and financial...