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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

In the event of a hack


You've determined to the best of your ability that your device has been hacked. At the very least, you've determined that your device is demonstrating behavior that you cannot otherwise explain. The following are the steps you should take depending on the particulars of your hack.

The device type (BYOD or the corporate device)

Depending on whether your device is a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or is owned by your employer, the steps which you take should be similar. If you own the device, you may just initiate a device reset. Every device has the ability for a basic reset. In most cases, this will remove all the data and applications and place the device into an original setup state.

For example:

Be sure and check each vendor for their support sites.

BYOD

If your device is a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or is...