Many of us store enough information on our smartphones that, should a criminal gain access to it, our personal and professional lives would be exposed. Banking applications, voicemails, emails, and logins to business servers are all vulnerable to attack by criminals as recent hacking headlines and the emergence of mobile trojans have proved. So says an information security awareness consultancy.
The Security Company discusses how individuals, companies and service providers should work together to defend against mobile hacking on its web site.
"We are carrying an extremely valuable log of information on our person, more so than we might find on a PC; and we are also entrusting our mobile network to protect it," warns Bernadette Palmer, Senior Communications Consultant for The Security Company. "Mobile network providers must nurture the trusting relationship it took time to build with their customers by educating mobile users on mobile security as a matter of urgency."
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