"The advent of Smartphone technology has seen internet browsing, emailing & satellite navigation become common place. Indeed, Smartphones have become the primary tool for communicating around the globe and will often contain a users’ Outlook® address book and other crucial personal data e.g. BlackBerry®..."
Mobile telephones are our link with the world outside and browsing, emailing and satellite navigation on a mobile phone have become common. Mobile phones often contain the user’s Outlook address book or more, such as Blackberry phones. A lot of phones are synchronized with the user’s computer making them very powerful, but vulnerable mobile devices.
Threats to mobile phone security and privacy intrusions have become a major issue as nowadays mobile phones have the connectivity and capacity that exceed computers from a decade ago.
Malicious software makers don’t need to infect or attack your computer in order to get access to your data such as addresses, telephone-numbers or passwords - infecting your mobile phone is often all that is needed.
