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Pay Attention To Security For Your Smart Phone

Sep 18th, 2012 | By
Pay Attention To Security For Your Smart Phone

With the proliferation of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, it is important to enjoy their benefits while remaining vigilant about the security issues that go with their use. Fully 40 percent of all Internet activity is now conducted not on a traditional computer in one’s home or business but rather on some kind of mobile device. An example of security problems that can arise was brought to light when Mat Honan, a Wired reporter, revealed that he had been the victim of a mobile security breach. That a seasoned reporter for a magazine like
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Think Your Smartphone Is Safe? Think Again!

Jul 17th, 2012 | By
Think Your Smartphone Is Safe? Think Again!

Smartphones aren’t the prime target of virus writers — yet. Hackers are ramping up their efforts, however, unleashing a variety of attacks that specifically target smartphone owners. In the past year, “we’ve noticed a 900 percent increase of malware for mobile devices that run the Android OS,” said Catalin Cosoi, global research director at Romanian security firm Bitdefender. “Although some of the samples are oriented towards profit, by sending text messages or phoning to premium-rate numbers, the wide majority [are] focused on extracting personal information from the device, such as contacts, text messages, browser history
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iPhone Apps and our Fascination with Other People’s Information

Mar 21st, 2012 | By
iPhone Apps and our Fascination with Other People’s Information

Highlight is part of an emerging trend of apps for smartphones that reveals information you have chosen with anyone else with the same app that is in close proximity to you. Other so called social apps include Sonar, Glancee, Kismet, and Banjo. Anyone who uses Facebook knows some people share way too much personal information that they mistakenly think is limited to their chosen friends. Savvy social media users know better and never record anything about themselves they wouldn’t be comfortable with the whole world knowing. Hopefully users of apps like Highlight will be as
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