Mobile Employees Should Be Aware Of Mobile Threats

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Mobile Employees Should Be Aware Of Mobile Threats

An FBI warning of new mobile device attacks offers a good opportunity to bring your employees up-to-speed on mobile security, mobile precautions and general mobile wariness. The FBI warning deals with smishing (aka vishing) -- a scam using text messages or robot calls to persuade recipients to share confidential information.

Make sure your mobile employees -- and, indeed, any employee who might have business information stored on a personal mobile device -- understand that the proper response to this sort of malicious outreach is the same as to phishing and other e-mails: no response at all. Unsolicited messages, unfamiliar senders, any message or call that seems even the slightest bit out of the ordinary should be discarded immediately.

Apple's iOS 4.2, for one example, deals with 40 security problems. Users of Android phones should keep an eye out for Google's promised patch of a vulnerability that affects all versions of the operating system.

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