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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

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...

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