If
in marketing there is 4P's, then here's the 4M's we should all be
aware about. Hackers or malware writers are increasing tremendously
nationwide and they are making a profit out of it not only on your
personal computers but in mobile phones as well.
We
all are aware of the mobile usage of the economy to this date. And
believe it or not, hackers are also into this nowadays. Since we are
all users, then we all should be aware of this jeopardy. Malwares are
most common in usage of phone as payment mechanism, also termed as
“Toll Fraud”, which is currently widespread in Russia, the Middle
East, and parts of Europe.
It
has been accounted that there is an 82 percent of user detections in
June 2012. Imagine the huge percentage of industry business it had
become in a month that it has a record of millions of dollars
successfully stolen from the people, not to mention the transactions
that are not successful.
Despite
the growing issue of privacy on mobile devices, a significant
component of users are still having a hard time coping with
aggressive advertising techniques. It has been estimated that only 5
percent of Android applications include these aggressive players but
were downloaded for over 80 million times. Why do people with privacy
issues still download these advertisements and how does malware
writers earn? The answer is simple, these techniques include the ever
famous pushing out-of-app ads and with every click thereof comes the
access of personal identifiable information without the user knowing.
And these information about the user can be sold to companies who
need it for a lot of financial compensation.
BOTTOMLINE:
People need to be aware of the danger their mobile phones might get
if they won't be aware of what they are hitting in those unsafe links
and download buttons. They should also know that username and
password left unprotected can also be hacked immediately. As
suggested by the professionals, we should always sign-out or log-out
our accounts specially if we are not using our own devices. Because
if this continues to happen, then eventually people will lack trust
in using mobile phones for transactions due to unending fraud.
For
your online and digital security needs, visit www.globalsign.com.sg.
Or
send us an inquiry at sales-apac@globalsign.com
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