Chapter 4. Mobile and Social – the Threats You Should Know About

Due to the increasing use of smart and mobile phones, the threats against these mobile devices have increased/risen over the last few years. We will take an in-depth look at various scams, phishing, spear phishing, social engineering, Cloud security, viruses, worms, and other threats a user may encounter, and future threats.

In this chapter, we will review various threats that you need to be aware of. They are as follows:

• Scams

• Malware

• SMS spoofing

• Social engineering

• Phishing

• Cloud computing

• Virus