Keep your mobile phone safe

In addition to the usual risks of loosing or having your mobile phone stolen, smart phones and Bluetooth mobiles are vulnerable to similar types of attack which your desktop or laptop computer has been prey to: these days they are less like phones and more like pocket PCs!

Whilst smart phones are relatively new, their adoption into daily life has been swift. At the time of writing despite the infancy of the technology although hackers and cybercriminals have not been slow to identify and exploit the weaknesses of early generation smart phone models.

As with desk-based computing, there is the risk from viruses, phishing, your private details being accessed including usernames and passwords stored on your device and malicious or fraudulent use of your data connection. It's therefore good practice to consider protecting yourself when you use your mobile or smart phone in the same way you should when using your desktop or laptop on the Internet.