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Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices

You're reading from   Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices Mobile phones and tablets enhance our lives, but they also make you and your family vulnerable to cyber-attacks or theft. This clever guide will help you secure your devices and know what to do if the worst happens.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693608
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Living in a Mobile World FREE CHAPTER 2. Users and Mobile Device Management 3. Privacy – Small Word, Big Consequences 4. Mobile and Social – the Threats You Should Know About 5. Protecting Your Mobile Devices 6. Support and Warranty Insurance 7. Baby Boomers, Teens, and Tweens 8. Getting Your Life Back After You've Been Hacked IBM Notes Traveler Mobile Device Management Tips to Help You Protect Your Mobile Device
Mobile Acceptable Use Policy Template The History of Social Networking, the Internet, and Smartphones Index

Summary


In this chapter, we looked at some benefits and risks for older people using mobile devices. While the devices can provide benefits, they can also open the door to the loss of personal information. We also reviewed technology's impact on children and young adults, and steps parents can take to make mobile devices safer for minors. Impacts to the workplace environment were discussed, focusing on technology's effects on the various working generations. Finally, we looked at the cruelty of and damage done by cyberbulling. The next chapter will deal with the steps to be carried out after knowing that your device is hacked.

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