Our mobile phones have become the center of our digital lives. We carry them with us everywhere we go. Let’s learn how to keep them physically secure. Physical Device Security We use smartphones for everything. I prefer using a computer, but if I had to, I could do just about everything online that I needed […]
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Everyone has (or is at least assumed to have) a mobile phone these days. And since our mobile phones are directly associated with us, our phones are often used as a stand-in for us when our identity needs to be verified. This is usually done via a text message, but sometimes with a phone call.
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Did you know that on your phone, not all links open in your chosen browser? It’s both hard to detect and hard to avoid, and it can completely undermine your choice of a privacy-respecting default browser. The Hidden In-App Browser Most of us probably just use the built-in web browser that comes with our phones
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You’re in the airport, facing a long day of travel… and you forgot to charge your phone last night. You’re looking at the dreaded red battery symbol. And you just realized your wall charger is in your checked baggage. There, just up ahead, you see a public charging station, with several open USB ports. Is
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All software has bugs. Therefore, the less software you have, the fewer bugs you have. In other words, the fewer applications and plugins you have installed, the fewer the opportunities there are for your computer or smartphone to be hacked. It’s a mathematical certainty. In the cybersecurity realm, we call this “reducing your attack surface”.
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Your cell phone provider is also an internet service provider (ISP). Whenever you’re not using WiFi to connect to the internet, you’re using your cellular data plan. That means that your cellular provider has a front row seat to viewing everything you do on the internet. This mobile tracking includes all the apps you have
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