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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.

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849693608

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Information Security

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

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

The Internet

Index

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed:

Personal and device identification numbers
Preventative measures to discourage hackers
How to create strong passwords
The disadvantages of reusing passwords
Data encryption on smartphones
How to research apps
Signs that a device has been hacked
SMS messaging attacks
Trojans in applications and attachments
What to do if an account has been compromised
How to wipe a smartphone

In the next chapter we will see how to get your device serviced in the event of a significant malfunction.

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