Mobile Devices

Abstract

Mobile devices are becoming a method to provide an efficient and convenient way to access, find and share information; however, the availability of this information has caused an increase in cyber attacks. Currently, cyber threats range from Trojans and viruses to botnets and toolkits. Presently, 96% of mobile devices do not have pre-installed security software while approximately 65% of the vulnerabilities are found within the application layer. This lack in security and policy driven systems is an opportunity for malicious cyber attackers to hack into the various popular devices. Traditional security software found in desktop computing platforms, such as firewalls, antivirus, and encryption, is widely used by the general public in mobile devices. Moreover, mobile devices are even more vulnerable than personal desktop computers because more people are using mobile devices to do personal tasks. This review attempts to display the importance of developing a national security policy created for mobile devices in order to protect sensitive and confidential data.

Microblogging in higher education: Digital Natives, knowledge creation, social engineering, and intelligence analysis of educational tweets

“…However, there is not much guidance given on the protections of these tweets or the secure integration of Twitter into other Web 2.0 applications. As a result, this paper explores methods with which Twitter and its data can be exploited for nefarious uses (Dawson and Omar, 2015). Explored in this paper are the methods with which Twitter and its data can be exploited for nefarious uses.…”