Mobile apps have become mass-produced products by today’s mobile device users. The ability of devices such as smartphones or tablets to access many things provide its own advantages for its users. Most mobile apps today can tell what’s happening lately, user destinations, and more. But, have you just entrusted your data security or identity?
According to some security experts, there are about four levels of data theft risk to be monitored. Some unwitting apps come with malicious codes that are able to penetrate into device sensors and access your privacy data. In the meantime, your information data can be broken if you’re using the Wi-Fi feature. Moreover, processes such as jailbreak can also break into and even damage the operating system of the device itself. That way, irresponsible person can easily access into your device system.
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With more and more day-to-day news about the privacy of mobile device users, more users are now more careful when choosing and using apps. However, it does not reduce the use of mobile applications, even their frequency increases significantly. Apps for iOS and Android devices are the most downloaded mobile apps with a quantity reaching millions of downloads. With the increasing popularity level, of course every user should be concerned and alert to his/her own privacy security.
There are four things to be aware of every mobile device user to be on the lookout for data theft. First is the security of the application itself. Some time ago there were about 17 malicious mobile applications that could be easily accessed through Google Play. Usually such applications have been equipped with a series of malicious code that can access personal data and penetrate the sensors of your mobile device. The second is the attack through your hardware. Usually the hackers use memory damage inside the device to gain administrative access to your device. When you travel to someplace, you may need to keep track of your identity while traveling.
As is well known, smartphone or tablet device has advantages in accessing the network. Unwittingly, the information stored privately inside the device can be penetrated through the air. The ability of Wi-Fi on mobile devices actually has the same problems found on laptops. While the latter is the problem of the operating system. The jailbreak process of iPhone and Android devices can lead to excessive exploitation of the device’s operating system. Again, it can be exploited by hackers for data or identity theft.
Some time ago, the current infamous photo app, Instagram, experienced it. Researchers had found that there was an Android version of Instagram containing malicious malware. The malware would attack the device system after downloading it through an unofficial app site. This is one of the ways that the invaders of privacy data do. Fake application development is the method used to spread malware. Therefore, you should download only through official sites that can be trusted.
Not only Instagram, a few months ago, one of the mobile social networking named Path was found to be uploading the entire list of addresses to the server unnoticed by its users. However, it turned out the application developers argue. The response said that Path had deleted all data and returned it. But they still continued to collect it anonymously unnoticed by its users.
